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

(a) Peridium double.

I.—Phalloi´deæ. Page [570].

Peridium becoming transformed into a receptacle of various shape, with a volva at its base. Gleba becoming dissolved into a dark green mass of jelly.

II.—Lycoperda´ceæ. Page [577].

Peridium sessile, usually with a more or less thickened base or sometimes stipitate, at maturity filled with a dusty mass of mingled threads and spores.

(b) Peridium single.

III.—Scleroderma´ceæ. Page 615.

Peridium discrete from the gleba, often with a columella; cells of the gleba subpersistent.

IV.—Hymenogastra´ceæ.

Peridium concrete with the gleba, indehiscent; cells of the gleba persistent. (No edible species reported. C. McIlvaine.)