. Minnesota mushrooms ... Botany; Mushrooms. GILL FUNGI Key to the Species 1. Cap whitish; gills whitish, distant 2. Cap rust-colored; gills yellow or yellowish, close 31 0. uiiibcllifera 0. campanella Omphalia umbellifera Umbel Cup Cap small 1-3 cm. wide, whitish or grayish, smooth, watery-translucent, striate, convex, plane and finally depressed; stem slender, 1-3 cm. by 2 mm., whitish, usually smooth, hairy at the base, stuffed or hollow; gills decurrent, whitish, broad, distant; spores subglobose to ellipsoid, 8-10 X 5-6;u,. The name refers to the shape of the cap. Common on decaying wood
. Minnesota mushrooms ... Botany; Mushrooms. GILL FUNGI Key to the Species 1. Cap whitish; gills whitish, distant 2. Cap rust-colored; gills yellow or yellowish, close 31 0. uiiibcllifera 0. campanella Omphalia umbellifera Umbel Cup Cap small 1-3 cm. wide, whitish or grayish, smooth, watery-translucent, striate, convex, plane and finally depressed; stem slender, 1-3 cm. by 2 mm., whitish, usually smooth, hairy at the base, stuffed or hollow; gills decurrent, whitish, broad, distant; spores subglobose to ellipsoid, 8-10 X 5-6;u,. The name refers to the shape of the cap. Common on decaying wood or on ground containing much decayed wood, smmiier and autumn ; edible, but scarcely desirable. Omphalia campanella Bell Cup Cap small, 6-15 mm. wide, rust-colored, smooth, watery-translucent, somewhat striate, bell-shaped or convex, depressed in the middle; stem slender, 3-6 cm. by 2 mm., brown, smooth, hairy at the base, hollow ; gills de- current, yellow or yellowish, connected by veins, close; spores elliptic 6-7 X 3-4;U,. The name refers to the bell- shaped cap. In clusters on decaying logs and stumps, especially of conifers, rarely on the ground, summer and autumn; Figure 18. campanella PLEUKOTUS This genus is characterized by an excentric or lateral stem; the stem is entirely lacking in some species, and the cap is shelf-like, or is turned upside down. Pleurotus resembles Tricholoma and C 1 i t o c y b"e"'*in"*9tr'UCture' but is readily recognized as a rule by the absence of a central stem, and by its habit of growing on wood. This is one of the most satisfactory of genera from the stand- point of the mushroom-eater. The species are conmion, usually grow in large masses throughout the entire growing period, and are of excellent flavor. The name refers to the excentric or lateral Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of
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