Agaricaceae 



C. MUSCIGENI (musctts, moss; gigno, to bear). 

 Phoiiota. Hygrophanous. Like Galera with a ring. 



A. HUMIGENI. On ground. 

 * Eudermini. Spores ferruginous. 



P. capera'ta Pers. capero, to wrinkle. (Plate LXXI, fig. 2, page 

 268.) Pileus 3-5 in. broad, more or less intensely yellow, fleshy, but 

 thin in proportion to its size and robust stem, ovate then expanded, ob- 

 tuse, viscid only when moist and not truly so, even at the disk, wrinkled 

 in pits at the sides, incrusted with white superficial flocci. Stem 4-6 

 in. long, more than I in. thick, solid, stout, cylindrical with exception 

 of the base which is often tuberous, shining white, scaly above the ring, 

 wJiicli is membranaccous , reflexo-pendulous, and broken into squamulcs 

 at the apex. Gills adnate, crowded, thin, somewhat serrated, clay-c'm- 

 namon. 



When young the pileus is incrusted with the veil or with white mealy- 

 floccose soft, hairy down, which is crowded on the even disk and scaly 

 towards the thin pitted-furrowed margin ; and as this separates the 

 pileus is naked. Veil universal, floccoso-mealy, at the first cohering 

 in the form of a volva but not continuous; in rainy weather remaining 

 in the form of a volva at the base. Spores dark ferruginous on a white 

 ground, paler on a black ground. There is a smaller form (A. ma- 

 cropus Pers.) in pine woods, pileus even and paler. Stem 3 in. long, 

 and without a tuberous base. Ring oblique and often incomplete. Stev. 



Spores IO/A B. and Br.; I2x4/x W. P.; spheroid-ellipsoid, unigut- 

 tate, i i-i2x8-9/* K.; 12x4.5^ Massee. 



Not previously reported. 



This fungus occurs sparingly in rich woods near Boston. It is much 

 esteemed in Germany, and eagerly sought by the common people, who 

 call it familiarly the "Zigeuner" (Gypsy). Boston Myc. Club Bull. 

 1896. 



I have found this species in but one place on the south hill of the 

 great Chester valley, Pa., where it grows plentifully in woods. The 

 taste raw was slightly acrid, but when cooked this disappeared. Many 

 ate of the species and enjoyed it. 



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