One Thousand American Fungi; Toadstools, Mushrooms, Fungi, Edible and Poisonous How to Select and Cook the Edible How to Distinguish and Avoid the Poi

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 Excerpt: ... descriptions of them. The three bitter ones, also, have no purplish tints to the mature gills; but two of the mild ones have. By using these and. other distinguishing characters the six species may be tabulated and their several peculiarities more clearly shown. Taste bitter I Taste mild, or not clearly bitter 3 1. Stem solid or stuffed, flesh whitish, gills whitish, then sooty-olive sublateritium I. Stem hollow, flesh yellow 2 2. Cap yellow or tinged with tawny, stem yellow, gills yellow, becoming greenish fasciculare 2. Cap brick-red, stem ferruginous, gills green, becom-ing olive elaeodes 3. Cap red or brick-red, with a yellow margin; gills yel-low, then greenish, finally purplish-brown perplexum 3. Cap yellow, or slightly tawny on the disk only 4 4. Gills gray, becoming purplish-brown capnoides 4. Gills yellow, becoming gray, neither green nor pur-plish epixanthum Probably in general appearance the Perplexing hypholoma most nearly resembles the brick-red Hypholoma, H. sublateritium; but it has often been mistaken for the tufted Hypholoma, H. fasciculare. From this it may be separated by the more red cap, the whitish flesh, the purplish-brown color of the mature gills, and the mild flavor. From H. sublateritium it is distinguished by its usually smaller size, more sl...