. The book of woodcraft . 404 The Book of Woodcraft tall and graceful. The cap is one to three inches in diam-eter, grayish or grayish brown, sometimes tinged lead color. Stew or bake from twenty to thirty minutes after thor-ough washing, is the recognized mode of cooking it. Beefsteak Mushroom {Fistulina hepatica). This juicyred mushroom grows chiefly on the chestnut color it varies from strawberry red to liver brown, notunlike raw meat, paler below. When wounded it Section,Beefsteak mushrooms. Note that it has tubes, not gills, below. When properlyprepared it is equal to a


. The book of woodcraft . 404 The Book of Woodcraft tall and graceful. The cap is one to three inches in diam-eter, grayish or grayish brown, sometimes tinged lead color. Stew or bake from twenty to thirty minutes after thor-ough washing, is the recognized mode of cooking it. Beefsteak Mushroom {Fistulina hepatica). This juicyred mushroom grows chiefly on the chestnut color it varies from strawberry red to liver brown, notunlike raw meat, paler below. When wounded it Section,Beefsteak mushrooms. Note that it has tubes, not gills, below. When properlyprepared it is equal to any kind of meat. It is one of ourbest mushrooms. (M. E. Hard.) Sometimes sHcedand served raw as a salad. All the Clavarias or Coral Mushrooms are good exceptClavaria dichotoma which is white, and has its branchesdivided in pairs at each fork. It grows on the ground underbeeches and is slightly poisonous and very rare. The edible ones are of the types illustrated. They areyellow, buff or dingy brown; two to four inches high. Mushrooms, Fungi, or Toadstools 405


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