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

It was first reported as an edible species in the forty-second report. Its flesh is tender and its flavor delicate and agreeable. Peck, 48th Rep.

Ontario, Dearness (LI. R. 4). West Virginia, New Jersey, Pennsylvania. Common, gregarious in moist woods. September to November. McIlvaine.

Those fortunate enough to find this species will hunt for it again assiduously. Even raw, when cut in strips, it makes a picturesque and delicious salad.

SPATHULA´RIA Pers.

A spatula.

Receptacle erect, spathulate, compressed, hollow, adnate to the stem, down which it runs for some distance on opposite sides, everywhere covered with the hymenium. Stem subcylindrical, hollow; asci clavate, apex narrowed, 8-spored. Spores elongated, cylindric-clavate, multi-septate at maturity, arranged in a parallel fascicle in the ascus; paraphyses filiform, septate.

Distinguished by the broad, flattened ascophore running down opposite sides of the stem.

Growing on pine leaves or on the ground among moss. Massee.

Resembling a spatha, an instrument for stirring a liquid, shaped like an apothecary’s spatula.

Pileus irregular, compressed, folded, running down into the stem on either side.