Edible and poisonous mushrooms : what to eat and what to avoid . With eighteen coloured plates illustrating forty-eight species / [M.C. Cooke] ; published under the direction of the General Literature Committee.

  • Cooke, M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt), 1825-1914.
Date:
1894
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Credit: Edible and poisonous mushrooms : what to eat and what to avoid . With eighteen coloured plates illustrating forty-eight species / [M.C. Cooke] ; published under the direction of the General Literature Committee. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    SATANIC BOLETUS. ' Boletus satanas. (Plate XYIII. Fig. 1.) This grows to be one of the largest and most splendid Boleti we possess, but it seems to be rather local. On one occasion we found twenty or thirty specimens growing together, some of which were a foot in diameter, eight or nine inches high, with a stem four inches thick, but they are often much smaller. It is autumnal, and favours rather open woods. The pileus is whitish ' or pale flesh colour, but soon discoloured, for it changes wherever bruised, and, being viscid, is generally ornamented by the adherence of dead leaves, twigs, and particles of soil. The under surface is very convex, yellowish, then red, blood-red, or crimson, punctured with myriads of pores. The stem is always thick and short, bright yellow or orange above, purplish-red below, and in the upper half reticulated with a