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

TABLE OF GENERA.

I.—PHALLEÆ.

Receptacle consisting of an elongated stipe bearing the gleba on a conical pileus at its apex.

1. Phallus. Page [571].

Pileus attached only to the apex of the stipe, dependent free all around below.

2. Mutinus. Page [575].

Pileus wholly adnate to the summit of the stipe.

II.—CLATHREÆ.

Receptacle a hollow clathrate body, with the gleba attached to the upper part of the inner surface.

3. Clathrus.