. Minnesota mushrooms ... Botany; Mushrooms. MINNESOTA MUSHROOMS Clitocybe laccata Rose Cap Plate I:4 Cap small. 1-5 cm. ^vide. flesh-colored, pink, reddish, or even bluish, watery, and translucent, smooth or very finely hairy, often striate or scalloped at the margin, convex, more rarely ex- pianded or depressed, but usually sunken in the middle ; stem slender, 2-8 cm. by 4-6 mm., col- ored like the cap. smooth, waxy, elastic, stuffed or hollow: gills sinuate or with a small decur- rent tooth, pinkish or reddish, broad, distant; spores subglobose, 8- lOyu. The name refers to the waxy texture.
. Minnesota mushrooms ... Botany; Mushrooms. MINNESOTA MUSHROOMS Clitocybe laccata Rose Cap Plate I:4 Cap small. 1-5 cm. ^vide. flesh-colored, pink, reddish, or even bluish, watery, and translucent, smooth or very finely hairy, often striate or scalloped at the margin, convex, more rarely ex- pianded or depressed, but usually sunken in the middle ; stem slender, 2-8 cm. by 4-6 mm., col- ored like the cap. smooth, waxy, elastic, stuffed or hollow: gills sinuate or with a small decur- rent tooth, pinkish or reddish, broad, distant; spores subglobose, 8- lOyu. The name refers to the waxy texture. Common in ^vet places, meado^vs, also swamps and thickets, throughout summer and autumn ; edible. Figure 14. Clitocybe laccata. COLLYBIA This genus is distinguished from T r i c h o 1 o m a and C 1 i t o c \- b e by the horny or cartilaginous nature of its stem, which is thus more or less distinct from the fleshy cap. The stem is consec-iuently more slender and graceful. From M y c e n a. C o 1 1 y b i a is distinguished by the inturned margin of the cap. a feature often to be recognized only in the young plants. It differs from M a r a s m i u s only in being more fleshy, and there are certain species which may be placed with equal warrant in either genus. All of our species are edible. The name refers to the form of the cap. Key to the Species . .-icem tall, with a long root ; gills broad and distant a. Cap and stem velvety b. Cap and stem not velvety { 1 ) Cap stickv when moist (2) Cap not sticky when moist; gills very broad Stem shorter, rarely rooting ; gills usually narrower and closer ; mostly in dense clusters a. Cap very sticky when moist; stem velvety C. longipcs C. radicata C. platyphylla C. vclutipcs. 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 Clements, Frederic E. (Frederic Edward), 1874-1
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