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

[**] Gills discolored.

Hygrophana (Gr., wet; to appear). Page [80].

Pileus thin, somewhat umbonate; flesh at length soft, watery. Stem rootless, containing a pith, entirely fibrous.

Flesh not exceeding in depth the width of the not broad, thin gills; thinnest toward the margin, hence somewhat umbonate. Color of the pileus either moist or dry, very variable in the same species. Pileus sometimes pulverulent from the persistence of the veil in dry weather.

[*] Gills whitish, not spotted.

** Gills more or less violet, gray or smoky. Not represented.

Series A.

Pileus Viscid or Fibrillose, Downy Or Scaly.

I.—Lima´cina. Viscous when moist.

* Gills not becoming discolored, nor becoming reddish.