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

Growing on the ground in open woods. Ohio, Morgan; Nebraska, Webber.

New York, Peck, 46th, 51st Rep.; Ohio, Lloyd.

L. delica´tum Berk. Peridium subglobose, plicate underneath, with a fibrous mycelium. Cortex a thin coat of minute spinules and granules, gray or brownish above, whitish below, finally falling away from the smooth, shining, pale or brownish surface of the inner peridium. Subgleba very small or quite obsolete; mass of spores and capillitium olivaceous, then pale or brownish-purplish; the threads rather thinner than the spores, with slender tapering branches. Spores globose, distinctly warted, 5–6µ in diameter.

Peridium 1–2 in. in diameter. Morgan.

Growing on the ground. Pennsylvania, Gentry; Missouri, Professor Trelease (Peck, Rep. 40); Louisiana, Langlois.

(d) Cortex a furfuraceous persistent coat.

(Plate CLXVI.)

Lycoperdon glabellum.
(After Morgan.)

L. glabel´lum Pk.—smooth, bare. Subglobose or subturbinate, 1–1.5 in. broad, sometimes narrowed below into a short stem-like base, furfuraceous with very minute nearly uniform persistent warts, which appear to the naked eye like minute granules or papillæ, yellow, opening by a small aperture; inner mass purplish-brown, capillitium with a central columella. Spores purplish-brown, globose, rough, 5–6.5µ in diameter.