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

Externally almost naked, smooth. No edible species reported.

I.—Aleuria Fr.

Fleshy or fleshy-membranaceous, externally powdered or with a woolly scurf.

[*] Macropodes—macros, long; podes, feet. Stem firm, elongated, furrowed.

[**] Cochleata—cochleatus, spiral. Subsessile, oblique or twisted.

[***] Cupulares. Subsessile, regular.

**** Humaria. Small, somewhat fleshy, margin downy. (None known to be edible.)

***** Encœlia. More or less coriaceous. (None known to be edible.)

* Macropodes. Stem firm, elongated, etc.

P. aceta´bulum Linn.—a cup. Ascophore stipitate, cup-shaped, fleshy, rather tough, disk dark umber-brown, externally paler and minutely scurfy or flocculose; mouth somewhat contracted; 1.2–2 in. broad, 1.2–1.4 in. high. Stem .4-.6 in. high, often .4 in. thick, imperfectly hollow, with parallel or anastomosing ribs, which continue for some distance up the ascophore as branching veins, pale umber; cells of the cortex give off short, rather closely septate hyphæ in groups; asci cylindrical, 8-spored. Spores obliquely 1-seriate, hyaline, smooth, broadly elliptical, ends obtuse, with a very large oil-globule, 18–22×12–14µ; paraphyses straight, septate, the brownish, clavate tip 5–6µ thick.