. Minnesota mushrooms ... Botany; Mushrooms. 22 MINNESOTA MUSHROOMS Clitocybe gigantea Giant Clitocybe C ap usually very large. 1-3 dm. wide, ^yhitish or tan-colored, smooth, sometimes cracking into scales when dry. plane, then depressed or concave, margin turned in at first, more or less irregular and lobed ; stem short and stout. 4-5 cm. by 1-2 cm., whitish or tan. smooth, solid ; gills short decurrent, whitish or tan, finally tinged Avith vellow or reddish, branched or connected bv veins, broad and crowded : spores elliptic, 5 "\ 3i-i-. 'I"he name refers to the size of the plant.
. Minnesota mushrooms ... Botany; Mushrooms. 22 MINNESOTA MUSHROOMS Clitocybe gigantea Giant Clitocybe C ap usually very large. 1-3 dm. wide, ^yhitish or tan-colored, smooth, sometimes cracking into scales when dry. plane, then depressed or concave, margin turned in at first, more or less irregular and lobed ; stem short and stout. 4-5 cm. by 1-2 cm., whitish or tan. smooth, solid ; gills short decurrent, whitish or tan, finally tinged Avith vellow or reddish, branched or connected bv veins, broad and crowded : spores elliptic, 5 "\ 3i-i-. 'I"he name refers to the size of the plant. (Jn the grcmnd in woods, from August to frost: edible. Clitocybe maxima Great Clitocybe Cap usually ^-ery large, 1-3 dm. wide, whitish or tan, smooth or slightly silkv or scalv in age, concave, the margin turned in and somewhat lobed ; stem stout. S-10 cm. bv 2-3 cm., whitish, somewhat fibrous, solid; gills long P'kjure 12, Clitocybe maxima whitish, not branched or connected by ^-eins; spores elliptic, 5-6 \ 3-4;n. The name refers to the size. r)n the ground in woods, throughout summer and autumn ; distinguished from the preceding by the more funnel-shaped cap. and the whitish, long decurrent gills. Coarse, but well-flavored and edible. Clitocybe illiadens Orange Cone SaiTron Top Cap large. 7-15 cm. wide, dark yellow or orange-brown, smootli, convex or flat at first, then depressed or deeply concave, often irregular from mutual pressure ; stem tall. 10-20 cm. by 1-1,^2 cm., deep yellow or orange, smooth, solid; gills running far down the stem, yellow to orange, distant; spores rounded, 4-5/n, The name refers tn the deceptively attractive a[ipearance. (Growing in large clusters about old stumps or dead trees frum August t(.i frost. Though not deadly, this plant is poisonous to nearly every one, and should. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these ill
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