Toadstools, mushrooms, fungi, edible and poisonous; one thousand American fungi / How to select and cook the edible; how to distinguish and avoid the poisonous, with full botanic descriptions. Toadstool poisons and their treatment, instructions to students, recipes for cooking, etc., etc.

by Charles McIlvaine; Robert K. Macadam

Firm, then pulpy, somewhat pruinose with the spores.

Crusta´ceæ (crusta, a crust).

Diffused, becoming plane.

Tuberculifor´mes (tuberculum, a little tuber).

Small, somewhat erumpent.

I.—Mesenterifor´mes. Gelatinous, inclining to cartilaginous.

T. fimbria´ta Pers.—fimbriæ, fringe. Olivaceous inclining to black, cespitose, clusters 2–3 in. high and even broader, erect, corrugated; lobes flaccid, incised at the margin, undulately fringed.

When soaked with water it has a dark tawny tinge. Stevenson.

Spores subpyriform.

On roots, dead branches, stumps, rails, etc.