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

Pileus fleshy, soft, fragile, marked with drop-like spots or rivulose. Appearing in spring, rarely in autumn.

Cespitose, in troops or often in rings.

[*] Gills whitish.

[**] Gills becoming reddish or smoky-gray.

Grouped by F.D. Briscoe—Studies by C. McIlvaine. Plate XVIII.

Fig.	Page.	Fig.	Page.
1–2. Tricholoma personatum,	[79]	5. Tricholoma columbetta,	[68]
3. Tricholoma russula,	[65]	6. Tricholoma humile,	[81]
4. Tricholoma terreum,	[71]

Spongiosa (spongia, a sponge). Page [78].

Pileus compact, then spongy, obtuse, even, smooth, moist but not hygrophanous; firm, growing in troops late in the autumn. Stem stout, base usually thickened, spongy fibrous. Gills at length decurrent but sinuate, by which character they are distinguished from Clitocybe.

[*] Gills not discolored.