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

Stem fibrillose from the remains of the adnate universal veil.

Limacina (limas, a slug or snail, slimy). Page [61].

Cuticle of pileus viscid when moist, innately fibrillose or scaly, but not lacerated; flesh of pileus thick, firm; margin almost naked.

[*] Gills not discolored, nor becoming reddish.

[**] Gills discolored, usually spotted with reddish-brown.

Genuina. Page [67].

Cuticle of the pileus never moist or viscid; torn into downy or floccose scales. Flesh soft, not water-soaked; margin involute and slightly downy at first.

[*] Gills not changing color, nor spotted with red or black.

[**] Gills becoming reddish or gray, the edge at last generally with reddish or black spots.

Rigida (rigeo, to be stiff). Page [74].