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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 {Fislulina hepatica). This juicy 

 red mushroom grows chiefly on the chestnut stumps. 

 In color it varies from strawberry red to liver brown, not 

 unhke raw meat, paler below. When wounded it bleeds. 



Beefsteak mushrooms. 



Note that it has tubes, not gills, below. "When properly 

 prepared it is equal to any kind of meat. It is one of our 

 best mushrooms." (M. E. Hard.) Sometimes sliced 

 and served raw as a salad. 



All the Clavarias or Coral Mushrooms are good except 

 Clavaria dichotoma which is white, and has its branches 

 divided in pairs at each fork. It grows on the ground under 

 beeches and is slightly poisonous and very rare. 



The edible ones are of the types illustrated. They are 

 yellow, buff or dingy brown; two to four inches high. 



