Important: Safety Warning
This page offers rules for telling edible mushrooms from poisonous ones. No such rules are reliable, and these identifications predate modern mycology. Deadly species closely resemble edible ones, and mistakes are regularly fatal. Never eat a wild mushroom on the strength of this text.
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Morel
or MORELLE (of the form morel), Morchella esculenta, and edible fungus. It has a pale-brown pileus, deeply pitted all over, with raised anastomosing lines between the depressions. It grows in orchards, woods, and forests. has an agreeable agreeable smell and taste.
Also (of the two forms): Solanum nigrum. Called also petty morel, the great morel being Atropa belladonna.
MORELIA (mō-rālē-ä), a town of Mexico, capital of the State of Michoacan, 125 miles W. N. W. of Mexico City, in a valley surrounded by high mountains; altitude 6,400 feet. It has a fine cathedral, and a magnificent aqueduct, dating from 1788, for the supply of water. It is in one of the chief sugargrowing districts in Mexico and was the birthplace of General Morelos, after whom the town was named. Pop. about 40,000.
MORGAN MORELLA (mō-rālyä), a town of Spain, 80 miles N. by E. of Valencia. It was the stronghold of Cabrera, the Carlist general, who scaled the castle on Jan. 25, 1839. It was retaken in July, 1840, by Espartero.