Bulletin . it is sticky (viscid). The color varies from nearly whitein some of the smaller specimens to gray or brown in larger ones. Theflesh is pure white, rather thin, and tough-elastic. The gills are snow-white, broad, unequal in length, rather far apart,and attached to the stem at the upper angle. The spores are purewhite and very abundant. A very perfect spore-print can often bemade from this mushroom in a few minutes. The stem is 10 to 20 cm. (4 to 8 inches) long, colored like thecap, or sometimes paler and usually white at the upper end. It tapersgradually upward, and at the lower end
Bulletin . it is sticky (viscid). The color varies from nearly whitein some of the smaller specimens to gray or brown in larger ones. Theflesh is pure white, rather thin, and tough-elastic. The gills are snow-white, broad, unequal in length, rather far apart,and attached to the stem at the upper angle. The spores are purewhite and very abundant. A very perfect spore-print can often bemade from this mushroom in a few minutes. The stem is 10 to 20 cm. (4 to 8 inches) long, colored like thecap, or sometimes paler and usually white at the upper end. It tapersgradually upward, and at the lower end it is somewhat enlarged andthen tapers off into a long, slender, root-like structure in the is this character that gives the plant its specific name. The stem isfirm, often twisted, and smooth but often striate or grooved. This is a very attractive and clean-looking species. The caps, whenfried, are sweet and pleasing to the taste. Collected in Champaign, Jackson, and Union counties. 517Plate CXXV. Collyhia radicata. Edible. 518 The Broad-gilled Collybia (Edible)CoUyhia platypliylla Fries Collybia platyphylla is a large, stout mushroom which grows fromJune to October on rotten logs or on the ground near rotten logs orstumps. It is found mostly in the woods but occasionally also in openpastures, especially in recently cleared fields. The cap is 7 to 15 cm. (3 to 6 inches) broad, at first convex butsoon expanded and nearly flat or with the margin upturned, fleshy,but thin and fragile. The surface appears watery when moist andusually is streaked with fine dark liairs. but the ground-color is brownor gray or sometimes nearly white. The flesh is white. The cap issometimes cjuite irregular and the stem is not always exactly in thecenter. The thin margin is often split in various places. The gills are very broad, as much as a half inch or more some-times. They are soft and white, n(it very close together, and are at-tached to the stem by the upper angle. In old plants the gi
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