Agaricaceae 



ciitocybe. 



The gills are closely placed side by side, narrow and prolonged 

 downward on the stem. They have nearly the same color as the cap. 

 The stem is nearly cylindric, smooth or adorned with a few silky fibrils, 

 whitish and spongy within or sometimes hollow when old. 



The cap is from 1-3 inches broad ; the stem 2-3 inches long and 

 2-4 lines thick. This mushroom grows among fallen leaves in wootls. 

 It appears in August and September. I have found it in the Adiron- 

 dack forests only. Its range is probably northward, and its rarity de- 

 tracts from its importance as an edible species. Peck, 54th Rep. N. Y. 

 State Bot. 



HygropllOl'US laurSB Morg. PileilS fleshy, convex and umbonate, 

 then expanded and depressed, more or less irregular, glutinous, white, 

 clouded with a reddish or brownish tinge especially on the disk. Stem 

 solid, more or less curved or crooked, tapering downward, yellowish- 

 white; the apex scabrous with scaly points. Lamellae unequally ad- 

 nate-decurrent, distant, white. Spores pellucid, elliptic, apiculate, 

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Growing in rich soil among the leaves in hilly woods. Pileus 2-4 

 in. broad, stipe 2-4 in. long and >2 an inch thick. This is a much 

 larger plant than H. cburncns, has a wash of red or brown upon the 

 disk, and is covered with a thick gluten. It is more like H. cosstis, but 

 has no odor. Journal Cincinnati Soc. Nat. Hist. Vol. VI, 180, 1883. 



Edible. Prof. C. H. Peck. 



Lactarius. Lactarius SllbpurpureilS Pk. Purplish Lactarius. (Plate IV. See 



(Plate IV.) 



page 172.) ; 'When fresh, their taste 

 is slightly acrid, but, when they are 

 cooked, it is scarcely inferior to that of 

 L. deliciosus." Peck, 54th Rep. N. 

 Y. State Bot. 



I had not seen this species when the 

 first edition of this work went to press, 

 consequently could not report its edible 

 qualities. The favorable testing by Pro- 

 fessor Peck adds weight to the opinion 

 I have frequently expressed, that acrid- 

 ity of species when raw is no evidence 

 whatever that they are harmful. Acridity usually disappears in cooking. 



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LACTARIUS SUBPURPUREUS PK. 

 About one-half nat. size. After Peck. 



