. British edible fungi: how to distinguish and how to cook them. With coloured figures of upwards to forty species. Mushrooms, Edible. EXPLANATORY. 21 under examination has a ring or not. The stem is sometimes solid throughout, and sometimes hollow in the centre ; and in a few cases is so short as to be scarcely visible. There is sometimes a loose, or fixed, volva, or sheath, at the base of the stem, but it is only present in one or two species which are edible, and is not shown in the woodcut. In passing,. it may be remarked that, although the greater number of fleshy fungi have the radiating
. British edible fungi: how to distinguish and how to cook them. With coloured figures of upwards to forty species. Mushrooms, Edible. EXPLANATORY. 21 under examination has a ring or not. The stem is sometimes solid throughout, and sometimes hollow in the centre ; and in a few cases is so short as to be scarcely visible. There is sometimes a loose, or fixed, volva, or sheath, at the base of the stem, but it is only present in one or two species which are edible, and is not shown in the woodcut. In passing,. it may be remarked that, although the greater number of fleshy fungi have the radiating plates, or gills, on the under side of the pileus, or cap, yet there are some in which the gills are replaced by tubes or pores, or else by acute spines or teeth. The gill-plates are variable in colour in different species, and it is important that this colour should. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Cooke, M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt), b. 1825; Tonge, Olive. ins; Herndon/Vehling Collection. fmo. London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Tru?bner & Co. Ltd.
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