Our Edible Toadstools and Mushrooms and How to Distinguish Them / A Selection of Thirty Native Food Varieties Easily Recognizable by their Marked Individualities, with Simple Rules for the Identification of Poisonous Species

by W. Hamilton Gibson

Morchella esculenta

Pileus: Oval, elliptical, or round in outline; diameter one inch to three inches in a large specimen; hollow. Color pale yellowish brown, varying to greenish; surface more or less regularly honey-combed with deep depressions.

Stem: Hollow, dingy white, united to the base of pileus.

Taste: Sweet and pleasant.

Habitat: Woods, orchards, and shaded grassy places.

Season: May and June.

PLATE XXXII

Morchella Esculenta.