Leucosporse 



in grand fairy rings, five, tea, fifteen feet in diameter. We find it also 

 in the woods. It is beautifully white and majestic, and these rings can 

 be seen in meadows where the grass has been eaten close, for half a 

 mile or more. The gills are white until the cap is almost opened, by 

 which time the green spores begin to cause the gills to change to green. 

 The meat is fine and is usually more free from worms than other mush- 

 rooms. Six families, here, have eaten heartily of them. The experi- 

 ence is that one or two members of each family are made sick, though 

 in two families, who have several times eaten them, no one was made 

 sick. I enjoy them immensely, and never feel any the worse for eating 

 them. I doubt if we have a finer-flavored fungus. The meat is simply 

 delicious. One fairy ring yields a bushel." 



Prof. W. S. Carter, University of Texas, Galveston, reported to me 

 (and sent specimens of L. Morganii) the poisoning of three laboring 

 men from eating this fungus. They were seriously sick, but recovered. 



The conclusion is inevitable that this green-spored Lepiota contains a 

 poison which violently attacks some persons, yet is harmless upon others. 



I have not had opportunity to test it. It should be tested with great 

 caution. 



CLYPEOLA'RII. Clypeus, a shield. Ring fixed; stem sheathed, etc. 



L. Frie'sii Lasch. in honor of Fries. Pileus fleshy, soft, lacerated 

 into appressed tomentose scales. Stem hollow, with a webby pith, sub- 

 bulbous, scaly. Ring superior, pendulous, equal. Gills subremote, 

 linear, crowded, branched. Fries. 



PileilS fleshy but rather thin, convex or nearly plane, clothed with a 

 soft, tawny or brownish-tawny down, which breaks up into appressed, 

 often subconfluent scales, the disk rough with small acute, erect scales. 

 Flesh soft, white. Gills narrow, crowded, free, white, some of them 

 forked. Stem equal or slightly tapering upward, subbulbous, hollow, 

 colored like the pileus below the ring, and there clothed with tomentose 

 fibrils which sometimes form floccose or tomentose scales, white and 

 powdered above. Ring well developed, flabby, white above, tawny 

 and floccose-scaly below. Spores 7-8x3-4^. 



Plant 2-5 in. high. Pileus 1-4 in. broad. Stem 2-5 lines thick. 



Catskill mountains and East Worcester. July to September. 



I have quoted the description of this species as it is found in Epicri- 



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