. Mushrooms and their use . Mushrooms. stem three to five inches long, and a haK inch or more thick. It grows in woods in hilly or mountainous districts, and may be found from July to September. It is solitary or scattered in its mode of growth, and not very plentiful. It retains its color somewhat when cooked, and in consequence, the dish of Violet mushrooms is scarcely as attractive to the eyes as it is to the palate. The Smeared cortinarius, C. collinitus, is much more common than the preceding species, and has a much "wider range. As its name indicates, both cap and stem are covered w
. Mushrooms and their use . Mushrooms. stem three to five inches long, and a haK inch or more thick. It grows in woods in hilly or mountainous districts, and may be found from July to September. It is solitary or scattered in its mode of growth, and not very plentiful. It retains its color somewhat when cooked, and in consequence, the dish of Violet mushrooms is scarcely as attractive to the eyes as it is to the palate. The Smeared cortinarius, C. collinitus, is much more common than the preceding species, and has a much "wider range. As its name indicates, both cap and stem are covered with a viscid slime or gluten, which makes it disagreeable, or at least unpleasant, to handle. The cap is yellow, tawny-yellow, or somewhat ochra- ceous in color, and when the gluten on it has dried, it is very smooth and shining. The flesh is white or whitish. The gills are at first of a grayish or bluish-white hue, sometimes called clay-colored, but when mature they are rusty-ochraceous or cin- namon color. The stem is straight, solid, cylindrical, and gen- erally a little paler than the cap. "When the gluten on it dries, it cracks transversely, giving the stem a peculiar, scaly appearance. The plant is t^TO to five iaches high, with a cap commonly one and a half to three inches broad. The stem is one-fourth to one- half an inch thick. It grows in thin woods, copses and partly- cleared lands, and may be found here from August to October. It is well to peel the caps before cooking them. The gluten often causes dirt and rubbish to adhere to them very tenaciously. The Cinnamon cortinarius, C. cinnamomeus, is a smaller spe- cies than either of the preceding, but much more plentiful. Its cap is usually one to two inches broad, its stem one to three inches long and about one- fourth of an inch thick, or a little less. Its cap may be con- vex, plane, or furnished with a central prominence or When young, at least, it is coated with silky or hairy fibrils, and these sometim
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