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

Sandy places. Known by the peridium dehiscing in a stellate manner; from 1–2 in. across. Massee.

New Jersey, August. In sandy woods. McIlvaine.

I have found but few specimens. Those were edible and good.

GENUS II.—POLYSAC´CUM De C.

Polus, many; saccus, a sack.

(Plate CLXXXI.)

Polysaccum pisocarpium.
Natural size.

Peridium irregularly globose, thick, attenuated downward into a stem-like base, opening by disintegration of its upper portion; internal mass (gleba) divided into distinct sack-like cells.

Allied to Scleroderma and distinguished by the cavities of the gleba containing distinct peridiola. Massee.