. Minnesota mushrooms ... Botany; Mushrooms. MINNESOTA MUSHROOMS Agaricus placomyces Scaly Agaricus Cap 5-10 cm. ^vicle, whitish, but often so densely co\-ereil with tiny brown scales as to be almost wholh- dull brown, the margin white at maturity but the disk nearly ahva\-s brown. con\-ex to flat; stem 7-14 cm. bv S-14 mm., white or whitish, smooth, stuffed or hollow, bulbous, with a large superior ring; gills free, pink, then dark ptn"ple-brown. crowded : spores purple-brown, ellipsoid. 4-6 ^^ 'Vhe name refers to the flattened cap. Common in grassland or woodland, summer and aut
. Minnesota mushrooms ... Botany; Mushrooms. MINNESOTA MUSHROOMS Agaricus placomyces Scaly Agaricus Cap 5-10 cm. ^vicle, whitish, but often so densely co\-ereil with tiny brown scales as to be almost wholh- dull brown, the margin white at maturity but the disk nearly ahva\-s brown. con\-ex to flat; stem 7-14 cm. bv S-14 mm., white or whitish, smooth, stuffed or hollow, bulbous, with a large superior ring; gills free, pink, then dark ptn"ple-brown. crowded : spores purple-brown, ellipsoid. 4-6 ^^ 'Vhe name refers to the flattened cap. Common in grassland or woodland, summer and autumn ; excellent. Agaricus campester Common or Cultivated Mushroom Cap 5-15 cm. wide, white, whitish, gravish to reddish or brownish in some forms, smooth, or in some forms silkv, liairv or scalv. conwx to plane: stem 4-10 cm. bv 1-2 cm., whitish, more or less smooth, stuft"- ed. ring near the middle, more or less torn ; gi 1 1 s free. pink, then dark bro\\"n, broad, crowded : s p ores ijurple-brown, ellipsoid, 7-9 \ 6/x. The name refers to its habit of growing in meadows and pastures. Common in grassland from sprmg to winter ; the standard edible mushroom, and the onlv one commonlv cultivated. It is ex- tremelv variable, but it is impos- sible for the beginner to distin- guished its manv forms or some of the closelv related FlOURE 42. Ao.\RICUS Distinguished bv tlie presence of a ring, and the continuit\' of the stem and cap. The ring is sometimes small, or absent in age. The gills are usuallv adnate. ( )ur species are all stickv. and with one exception are found on dung or in well-manured soil. Thev are probablv all edible, but the first should be tried very lautiouslw d'he name refers to the ring. Key to the Species 1. Cap blue-green with a stickv slime; on the ground 5. arn/ginosa 2. Cap yellowish or yellow ; on dung or well-manured soil a. Stem stuft'ed ; gills of one color; cap convex, then 5. stcrcoraria }jlane b. Stem hollow; gills black
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