DESCRIPTIONS OF FUNGI. 89 



Yellow or Orange. 



ing looking mushroom and easily distin- 

 guished. It often grows in rings or arcs of 

 circles. (Edible.) 



HYPHOLOMA FASCICULAR^ = a small bundle. 

 The Tufted Hypholoma. 



Cap a beautiful reddish color, like a peach ; 

 the disc darker, about 2 inches broad, fleshy, 

 thin, convex, then plane, with a slight mound 

 or umbo, even, smooth, dry ; flesh a light yel- 

 low. Stem variable in length, 2 to 9 inches 

 long, 2 lines thick, hollow, thin, incurved or 

 curved, covered with fibres of same color as 

 cap. Gills adnate, very crowded, linear, some- 

 what liquid when mature (deliquescent), sul- 

 phur yellow, and then becoming green, taste 

 bitter. It grows in crowded clusters. It is 

 said to be poisonous. 



AMANITA MUSCARIA = a fly. 

 The Fly Amanita. 



Cap at first red, then orange, then becoming 

 pale, about 4 inches broad, convex, and then 

 flat, covered with thick fragments of volva ; 

 margin when grown slightly marked with 

 lines ; flesh white, yellow under the cuticle. 



