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TOADSTOOLS, MUSHROOMS, FUNGI EDIBLE AND POISONOUS ONE THOUSAND AMERICAN FUNGI
~Revised Edition~
HOW TO SELECT AND COOK THE EDIBLE; HOW TO DISTINGUISH AND AVOID THE POISONOUS
WITH FULL BOTANIC DESCRIPTIONS
BY CHARLES MCILVAINE
PRESIDENT PHILADELPHIA MYCOLOGICAL CENTER, HONORARY MEMBER SALEM COUNTY AND GLOUCESTER COUNTY, N.J., MEDICAL SOCIETIES
AND
ROBERT K. MACADAM
TOADSTOOL POISONS AND THEIR TREATMENT, INSTRUCTIONS TO STUDENTS, RECIPES FOR COOKING, ETC., ETC.
INDIANAPOLIS THE BOWEN-MERRILL COMPANY PUBLISHERS
COPYRIGHT 1900, 1902 THE BOWEN-MERRILL COMPANY ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
PRESS OF BRAUNWORTH & CO. BOOKBINDERS AND PRINTERS BROOKLYN, N.Y.
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CONTENTS
List of Illustrations v Preface xiii Introduction xv Instructions to Students xxix Abbreviations of the Names of Authors of Species xxxv Names of the Principal Reporters of American Species xxxvii Text 1 Toadstool Poisoning and its Treatment 621 Recipes for Cooking and Preparing for the Table 635 Glossary 651 Index to Genera 690 Index to Species 692 Index to Recipes for Cooking and Preparing for the Table 702 Index to General Contents 703
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
PLATE FIG. TEXT PLATE PAGE PAGE
Frontispiece, colored.
I. Tabular view of the genera of Agaricaceæ 2
II. Leucosporæ. Chart of Genera 2
III. Progressive growth of Agarics 2
IV. Gill shapes 2
V. Ring shapes and positions; volva shapes 2
VI. Colored 6
1. Amanita spreta 11
2. phalloides (white var.) 7
3. phalloides (brown var.) 7
4. muscaria 14
5. Frostiana 16
6. Gyromitra esculenta 546
VII. Section of Amanita phalloides showing parts of an Agaric 3
VIII. Colored 18
1. Amanita chlorinosma 25
2. rubescens and section 21
3. strobiliformis 19
IX. Amanita muscaria. Half-tone 14
X. Colored 28
1. Amanitopsis vaginata 28
2. vaginata, var. livida 29
3. nivalis 29
4. strangulata 30
5. Mycena galericulata 127
6. prolifera 126
7. prolifera (section) 126
XI. 1. Lepiota procera. Section 33
XII. Colored 32
1. Lepiota Americana 48
2. naucinoides 45
3. cepæstipes 46
4. Amanita rubescens 21
XIII. Lepiota procera. Half-tone 34
XIV. Lepiota Morgani. Half-tone 36
XV. naucinoides. Half-tone 44
XV_a_. Americana 48
XVI. Colored 52
1. Armillaria mellea 55
2. mellea, var. exannulata 56
3. Lentinus lepideus 230
XVII. Armillaria mellea. Section 52
XVIII. Colored 60
1, 2. Tricholoma personatum 79
3. russula 65
4. terreum 71
5. columbetta 68
6. humile 81
XIX. Tricholoma (section) 59
XX. Tricholoma decorosum 67
XXI. Tricholoma rutilans 70
XXII. Tricholoma terreum 71
XXIII. Tricholoma imbricatum 73
XXIV. Colored 82
1, 2, 3. Clitocybe ochropurpurea 108
4. ochropurpurea (section) 108
5. maxima 99
6. maxima (section) 99
7. nebularis 85
8. amethystina 107
9. odora 90
10. laccata 107
11. infundibuliformis 100
XXV. Clitocybe clavipes 86
XXVI. Clitocybe media 87
XXVII. Clitocybe monadelpha. Half-tone 88
XXVII_a_. 1. Clitocybe multiceps 94
2. multiceps, var. 94
XXVIII. Colored 112
1. Collybia platyphylla 114
2. platyphylla, after rain 114
3. dryophila 120
4. fusipes 116
XXIX. Collybia radicata. Half-tone 112
XXIX_a_. Colored 96
Clitocybe illudens 96
XXIX_b_. Collybia velutipes 118
XXX. Collybia butyraceæ 117
XXXI. Collybia acervata 122
XXXII. Mycena galericulata 124
XXXIII. Hiatula Wynniæ 132
XXXIV. Omphalia umbellifera 132
XXXV. Pleurotus ostreatus. Half-tone 134
XXXVI. Pleurotus sapidus (section) 141
XXXVII. Colored 146
1. Hygrophorus pratensis (white var.) 152
2. pratensis (colored var.) 152
3. pratensis (after rain) 152
4. miniatus 159
5. cantharellus 156
6. virgineus 153
7. niveus 153
XXXVIII. Hygrophorus pratensis 147
XXXIX. Hygrophorus flavo-discus 157
XL. Hygrophorus fuligineus 158
XL_a_. Lactarius blennius 165
XLI. Colored 160
1. Lactarius piperatus 168
2. indigo 171
3. deliciosus 170
4. volemus 180
XLII. Lactarius hygrophoroides 180
XLIII. Lactarius subdulcis 182
XLIV. Colored 184
1. Russula cyanoxantha 198
2. emetica 201
3. flavida 197
4. sordida 190
5. roseipes 209
6. virescens 194
7. puellaris 208
XLV. Russula (section) 185
XLV_a_. Russula purpurina. Half-tone 188
XLV_b_. Russula brevipes 189
XLVI. Colored 214
1. Cantharellus floccosus 218
2. Morchella esculenta 542