. Mushrooms and their use . Mushrooms. Timn. It is not plentiful here and I have never eaten it, but a correspondent who has been more fortunate in finding it pro- nounces it "very good ; The Wood mushroom, or Silvan mushroom, Agaricus silvati- cus, is also a scarce species with us. It is similar in size and shape to the Flat cap mushroom, but it is of a more brownish color, with the cap more prominent in. the centre, and adorned merely with fibrils or with a few obscure scales, which at length disappear. Its gills also are pinMsh at first, and then blackish- brown as in the o
. Mushrooms and their use . Mushrooms. Timn. It is not plentiful here and I have never eaten it, but a correspondent who has been more fortunate in finding it pro- nounces it "very good ; The Wood mushroom, or Silvan mushroom, Agaricus silvati- cus, is also a scarce species with us. It is similar in size and shape to the Flat cap mushroom, but it is of a more brownish color, with the cap more prominent in. the centre, and adorned merely with fibrils or with a few obscure scales, which at length disappear. Its gills also are pinMsh at first, and then blackish- brown as in the other species. It occurs in summer and autumn in woods as its name in- dicates, but it is neither frequent nor abundant, and of but little importance as an edible species. The term "Brown mushrooms" has been applied indiscrimi- nately by one Mrriter to such species as the Bleeding mushroom, the Mat-cap mushroom and the Silvan mushroom. vin. pueplish-beowj!^ ai^d black spoees. The genus Hypholoma differs from Agaricus in having the gills attached or grown fast to the stem at their inner ex- tremity and in having a stem destitute of a collar. Its spe- cies have not, previous to liis time, been regarded as edible. But one of my correspondents has eaten freely and repeated- ly of the Perplexing mush- room, H. perplexum, and he reports it has no bad taste and produces no ill effects, and on the strength of this it is here admitted among the edible species. It usually grows in clusters of few or many individuals, Hypholoma perplexum, slightly reduced. OH Or about StumpS, Or at the base of trees in woods or in open places. It is found in autumn. The cap is from one tO' 32. 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 the original Peck, Charles H. (Charles Horton), 1833-1917. Cambridge, Mass. : Cambridge Botanical Su
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