. Mushrooms and their use . Mushrooms. tween tiem. The stem is short and not at all or but slightly thick- ened at the base. It is a little paler than the cap. The species may be distinguished from the Clouded mushroom by its darker cap, its less tapering stem, and especially by its gills having wider and veiny interspaces between them. From the Club foot clito- cybe, Clitocybe clavipes, it differs but slightly. Its flesh is less soft and spongy, its cap less narrowly obconic, and its stem . shorter and more cylindrical. To my taste it has an excellent flavor, and I could wish it more abundant
. Mushrooms and their use . Mushrooms. tween tiem. The stem is short and not at all or but slightly thick- ened at the base. It is a little paler than the cap. The species may be distinguished from the Clouded mushroom by its darker cap, its less tapering stem, and especially by its gills having wider and veiny interspaces between them. From the Club foot clito- cybe, Clitocybe clavipes, it differs but slightly. Its flesh is less soft and spongy, its cap less narrowly obconic, and its stem . shorter and more cylindrical. To my taste it has an excellent flavor, and I could wish it more abundant. It has been found in autumn only. The Funnel-form clitocybe, Clitocybe infundihuliformis, is a neat and pretty species easily recognized by the funnel shape of its mature cap and by its pale red color. When very young the cap is slightly convex and of- ten adorned with a slight um- bo in its centre. As it ma- tures the margin becomes el- evated so that the cap assumes a shape somewhat resembling that of a wine glass. The margin is sometimes wavy. The flesh is thin and white. The gills are close, thin white or whitish and decurrent. The stem is smooth, colored like or a little paler than the cap and mostly tapering from the base upward. The cap is two to three inches broad, the stem one and a half to three inches long and one-fourth to one-half an inch thick. The Funnel-shaped mushroom grows in woods or copses in summer and autumn, especially in wet seasons. It is somewhat variable in color, but is usually a pale red, tinged with buff, and sometimes becoming more pale with age. It delights to grow among fallen leaves, and often there is an abundant white cot- tony mycelium at the base of the stem. When it grows in clus- ters the caps are apt to be irregular because of mutual pressure. The Laccate or Waxy clitocybe, Clitocybe laccata, is a small species, one of our most common and variable, yet one most easily recognized when its distinguishing characters are known. It is a sec
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