. Our edible toadstools and mushrooms and how to distinguish them; a selection of thirty native food varieties, easily recognizable by their marked individualities, with simple rules for the identification of poisonous species. Mushrooms; Cookery (Mushrooms); cbk. 96 EDIBLE MUSHROOMS ployed to root them out are said to have been so overcome by the odor as to be compelled to desist. Other features of this fungus are noted in Plate 7. The cap varies in size in different individuals, but is occasionally very large—five inches or more in diam- eter, the average expanse, perhaps, being about three
. Our edible toadstools and mushrooms and how to distinguish them; a selection of thirty native food varieties, easily recognizable by their marked individualities, with simple rules for the identification of poisonous species. Mushrooms; Cookery (Mushrooms); cbk. 96 EDIBLE MUSHROOMS ployed to root them out are said to have been so overcome by the odor as to be compelled to desist. Other features of this fungus are noted in Plate 7. The cap varies in size in different individuals, but is occasionally very large—five inches or more in diam- eter, the average expanse, perhaps, being about three inches. The cap is smooth, thick, and fleshy, sug- gesting soft kid leather, at first rounded convex, ulti- mately expanding quite horizontally, and is com- monly fissured here and there with irregular cracks, both in its expanse and at its edges. Its color is white, or yellowish white. In surface appearance Dr. Berkeley compared it to a " cracknel ; The gills are yellowish white, very moist and densely crowded, and of various lengths, as indicated in my sectional drawing on the plate, and are, moreover, annexed to the solid stout stem by a toothed border, also shown herewith. Prhe season of this mushroom extends into June, and in its favorite haunt it may occasionally be gath- ered by the bushel^ Opinions are at Epicurean variance as to the comparative esculent opinions qualities of this species. Certainly deli- cacy cannot be claimed for it; but those epicures who desire the characteristic fungus flavor at its maximum will find it in the TOOTHED GILLS. 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 Gibson, W. Hamilton (William Hamilton), 1850-1896; Herndon, James B. , Jr. fmo; Herndon/Vehling Collection. fmo. New York, Harper
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