. Mushrooms and their use . Mushrooms. Pleurotus ostreatws. Hygropliorus miniatus. cording to Kalchbrenner, it is eagerly souglit for food in the woods of Hungary, and is also cultivated on pieces of elm trunks in gardens. The Oyster mushroom, or Oyster pleurotus, Pleurotus os- tt-eatus, probably takes its name from some fancied resemblance between the shape of its cap and that of an oyster shell, rather than from any similarity-be- tween its flavor and that of an oyster. It is closely al- lied to the Sapid mushroom,- has the same colors, though with us it is usually white or merely shaded wit
. Mushrooms and their use . Mushrooms. Pleurotus ostreatws. Hygropliorus miniatus. cording to Kalchbrenner, it is eagerly souglit for food in the woods of Hungary, and is also cultivated on pieces of elm trunks in gardens. The Oyster mushroom, or Oyster pleurotus, Pleurotus os- tt-eatus, probably takes its name from some fancied resemblance between the shape of its cap and that of an oyster shell, rather than from any similarity-be- tween its flavor and that of an oyster. It is closely al- lied to the Sapid mushroom,- has the same colors, though with us it is usually white or merely shaded with yellow, and about the same size and taste. It differs pidncipally in having no stem at all, or only a very short lateral or eccentric one. It grows in clusters, one plant arranged above another on the sides of dead tnmks of standing trees. Its gUls are white or yellowish-white and reticulately connected where they run down on the short stem, or at their inner extremi- ty. It is commonly found in autumn, but it may occur also in summer during wet or showery weather. It has long been classed as esculent, but on account of the toughness of the flesh and lack of flavor, it can scarcely be placed among the mushrooms of first quality. Cooke says it should be slowly and carefully cooked, and French writers recommend it only while yet young and ten- der. For culinary use it is scarcely worth while to keep the Oys- ter mushroom and the Sapid mushroom apart. The genus Hygropliorus is chiefly distinguished by the charac- ter of the gills. These are usually rather thick, wide apart and of a somewhat soft waxy texture. In some species they are simi- lar to the gills of Tricholoma in their attachment to the stem; in others, they run down on the stem as in the genus Clitocybe, and such species bear so close a resemblance to species of Glitocybe that they were formerly associated with them. Many of them have both cap and stem very viscid or glutinous, a character not found in any of our clit
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