Bulletin . ytransparent. In dry weather it often splits radially. The gills are thin, narrow, close together, and attached to the are at first whitish but become purplish brown as the sporesmature. The edges are often uneven. The spores are purple-brown. The stem is 3 to 10 cm. (i to 4 inches) long, cylindrical, usuallystraight, slender, hollow, easily splitting, white, and smooth or slightlyscurfy toward the top. There is no ring normallv, and no , however, the veil remains partly or entirely on the stem,,forming a more or less definite ring. The plant is small but it
Bulletin . ytransparent. In dry weather it often splits radially. The gills are thin, narrow, close together, and attached to the are at first whitish but become purplish brown as the sporesmature. The edges are often uneven. The spores are purple-brown. The stem is 3 to 10 cm. (i to 4 inches) long, cylindrical, usuallystraight, slender, hollow, easily splitting, white, and smooth or slightlyscurfy toward the top. There is no ring normallv, and no , however, the veil remains partly or entirely on the stem,,forming a more or less definite ring. The plant is small but its abundance often makes up for its smallsize. The caps are very tender and good. Hypholoina CandoUcanuin and Hypliolonia inccrtum are bothclosely related to H. appcndiculatum if not identical with it. It is, atleast, not a serious thing to mistake one for another of these threespecies when collecting for the table, since all are equally good. Collected in Champaign county. 503Plate CXN^III &5o ?a A,oS. 504 The Edible ChamErEeee (EdibeE)Cautliarclliis cibariiis Fries Cautharcllns abaniis grows on tlie grnuncl in woods from Tune toSeptember. It is widely distributed and often very aljundant in mid-summer of a rainy year. The cap is 5 to 10 cm. (2 to 4 inches) broad, flesliy, rather thick,at first convex and with the margin incurved, tlien flat, and finallysomewhat funnel-shaped. It is firm, with a smooth surface, but oftenquite irregular, with its margin wavy, and sometimes more or less one-sided, that is, with one side developed more than the other. The coloris rich egg-yellow. The flesh is white, peppery to the taste when usually with a faint odor of apricots. The gills are thick but so narrow that they appear like swollenveins. They are cjuite far apart, usually crooked, and fork or run intoeach other irregularly and extend down the stem somewhat (decur-rent). They are colored like the cap. Tlie spores are white or faintlyyellowish. The stem is short, firm and solid,
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