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

H. cri´spa Fr.—curled. Pileus deflexed, lobed or variously contorted, white or whitish. Stem equal or slightly swollen at the base, deeply and uninterruptedly grooved, white or whitish. Spores elliptical, 18×22µ long. Peck, 48th Rep. N.Y. State Bot.

Distinguished from all other species by the stout, costate, lacunose, hollow stem; entirely glabrous, fragile and with a semi-transparent look. Color variable, included under the following forms:

Var. al´ba. Pileus whitish.

Var. Grevil´lei. Under surface of the pileus reddish; stem white.

Var. incarna´ta. Pileus and stem flesh-color.

Var. ful´va. Pileus yellowish or tawny. Massee.

Pileus whitish, flesh-colored or yellowish, deflexed, lobed, at length free, crisped. Stem hollow, ribbed outside forming deep pits, 3–5 in. high, snowy white.

Edible. Badham, Cordier, Cooke, Berkeley, Peck.

West Virginia, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, McIlvaine.

H. crispa is white and variable in shape of cap. In its color it differs from all others of its genus. It is found in the woods only, from July until frost. It is not usually abundant. It is an esculent species and good of its kind.