. The book of woodcraft . spores and gillsand sinuate gills. About twenty species are described and though some areedible they are better let alone, unlike most of the unwhole-some kinds their odor is agreeable. Pie-Shaped Hebeloma. (Hebelomacrustoliniforme). Cap,pale tan, yellow, or brick color, a bump in middle;gills, whitish, then clay color, variable in size; spores, yel-low. Smells strongly and unpleasantly of radish. This completes the list of gilled mushrooms given asunwholesome in Mcllvaine and Macadam. White Clavaria {Clavaria dichotoma). Of all the coralmushrooms this is the only one
. The book of woodcraft . spores and gillsand sinuate gills. About twenty species are described and though some areedible they are better let alone, unlike most of the unwhole-some kinds their odor is agreeable. Pie-Shaped Hebeloma. (Hebelomacrustoliniforme). Cap,pale tan, yellow, or brick color, a bump in middle;gills, whitish, then clay color, variable in size; spores, yel-low. Smells strongly and unpleasantly of radish. This completes the list of gilled mushrooms given asunwholesome in Mcllvaine and Macadam. White Clavaria {Clavaria dichotoma). Of all the coralmushrooms this is the only one known to be poisonous. Itis not deadly but very unwholesome. It grows on theground under beeches and is fortunately very rare. It isknown by its white color and its branches dividing regu-larly by pairs. 402 The Book of Woodcraft WHOLESOME TOADSTOOLS With all these warnings and cautions about the poison-ous kinds before us, we shall now be able to approach in aproper spirit, the subject of Toadstool eating, and consider. Oyster Mushrooms. the second of our groups. These are the good safe Toad-stools or Mushrooms — for it is the same tiling. The Common Mushroom (Agaricus campestris). Knownat once by its general shape and smell, its pink or browngills, white flesh, brown spores and solid stem. It growsin the open, never in the woods. Oyster Mushroom {Pleurotus ostreatus). Many of us Mushrooms, Fungi, or Toadstools 403 have oyster beds in our woods without knowing it, and theoyster mushroom is a good example of valuable food goingto waste. It is found growing in clusters on old dead wood,logs or standing trunks. Its cap is smooth, moist and whiteor tinged with ash or brown. The gills and spores arewhite. The flesh is white and tough. It measures two orsix inches across. Sometimes it has no stem. It is afavorite for the table. It needs careful cleaning and longcooking. There is no poisonous species at all like it. Also, belonging to the Gilled or true mushroom family, arethe Ink
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