. Observations on recent cases of mushroom poisoning in the District of Columbia. 10 THE PUFFBALL (EDIBLE). Lycoperdon cyatluforme Bosc. Fig. 7 is a side view of a young and solid puffball which has been removed from the ground. Fig. 8 is a top view of the same spec- imen. A description of so simple an object is difficult. The exte- rior color is brown, and the outermost part of the covering is usually more or less distinctly and irregularly checked, the white color of the interior showing between the darker, raised areas. Within at its earliest stage the flesh is of a milk-white color, solid,
. Observations on recent cases of mushroom poisoning in the District of Columbia. 10 THE PUFFBALL (EDIBLE). Lycoperdon cyatluforme Bosc. Fig. 7 is a side view of a young and solid puffball which has been removed from the ground. Fig. 8 is a top view of the same spec- imen. A description of so simple an object is difficult. The exte- rior color is brown, and the outermost part of the covering is usually more or less distinctly and irregularly checked, the white color of the interior showing between the darker, raised areas. Within at its earliest stage the flesh is of a milk-white color, solid, and without an appreciable juice. Within two or three days it becomes soft, turns yellowish, develops a watery and later an amber- colored juice, and continues its development through later stages. In the left-hand specimen of fig. 9 the entire contents have changed. Fig. 11.—Two fairy rings formed by Marasmius oreades. from yellow to brown, the juice has dried out, the outer coatings on the upper part have been broken up and blown away, showing only in brown and gray at the lower edge of the specimen, and the inte- rior mass of dustlike spores and fluffy minute brown threads is exposed to the air. In the right-hand specimen the process has gone a step further and a large part of the contents of the puffball have been blown away by the wind. From the character of the fungus at this stage has arisen a name by which it is familiarly known among the colored people in the vicinity of Washington, 11 the devil's ; Fig. 10 shows further stages in the plant's history. In the right-hand specimen is shown the final form of the plant. It is dry and leathery, the spores all blown away, and the slender threads beaten down by the rain and dried together on the surface into a. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble t
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