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. Veil not reticulate, concealed beneath the pileus.

P. Ravenel´ii B. and C. Volva subglobose or ovoid, pinkish; with an inner membrane, the lower half of the veil surrounding the base of the stem; segments 2 or 3. Stem cylindric, tapering at each end, cellulose; the veil membranous, scarcely half as long as the pileus and concealed beneath it. Pileus conico-bell-shaped; the surface not reticulate-pitted after deliquescence; the apex smooth and closed or finally perforate. Spores elliptic-oblong, 4–5×2µ.

Plant 5–7 in. high. Volva 1½-2 in. in diameter. Stem nearly 1 in. thick. Pileus 1½ in. in height. This species vitiates the genus Dictyophora and it can not very well be placed in Ithyphallus.

Growing in woods and fields about rotting stumps and logs. Morgan.

South Carolina, Ravenel; Ohio, Morgan; New York, Peck.

II.—Ithyphal´lus Fischer. (Gr—erect; Gr—phallus.)

Stipe without an indusium or veil dependent from its apex. Morgan.

P. impudi´cus Linn. (Plate [CLVIII].) Volva globose or ovoid, white or pinkish; segments 2 or 3. Stem cylindric, tapering at each end, cellulose, without a veil. Pileus conic-campanulate; the surface reticulate pitted after deliquescence, the apex smooth, at first closed, at length perforate. Spores elliptic-oblong, 4–5×2µ.

Growing on the ground in woods.

Plant 6–8 in. high. Volva 2 in. in diameter. Stem 1¼ in. thick. Pileus 2 in. in height.