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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    LURID BOLETUS. Boletus luridus. (Plate XVIII. Fig. 2.) In all books and lists this is set down as a poisonous species, and no one ever seems to have doubted it until an American correspondent wrote us that he had eaten this and Boletus satanas, and found them excellent. At present we are not disposed to follow his example. The cap, or pileus, is hemispherical, from three to six inches in diameter, and dull umber brown, finely velvety but rather viscid. The under surface is porous, orange or red, and some- times blood-red. The stem is thick, usually rather short, more or less orange above, and red or brown below, and either sprinkled with dots or with a network of delicate veins. The flesh is thick and firm, changing immediately, when cut or bruised, to indigo-blue in all parts except the base of the stem, which is reddish. Fries says