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

B. Epiphytal.

V.—Nidularia´ceæ.

Peridium cyathiform, open at the top, containing one or more distinct peridiola. Morgan.

(Small. No species reported edible. C. McIlvaine.)

A. Terrestrial.

(a) Peridium double.

FAMILY I.—PHALLOIDEÆ.

Receptacle and gleba at first enclosed in a universal volva composed of three distinct layers, the central one being gelatinous at maturity. Spores minute, elliptic-oblong, smooth, when mature involved in mucus. Massee.

Spores 3–5µ in length. Morgan.

There are but few edible species within the family, and those edible only when very young. The family embraces the very offensive fungi known as stink-horns.