CLASSIFICATION OF A.GARH 



niicr. diameter., white, copious. ODOB and TASTE Btrong and 

 disagreeable. 



Gaespitose. <>n and around "lil stumps or decaying roots, form- 

 ing large clusters often of 25 50 indh iduals. August < October. Fre- 

 quent. Unsafe. 



An attractive-looking mushroom, forming large golden-yellow 

 masses, which catch the eye from j distance. Ii has poisonous 

 properties, however, which affecl oiosl people with causes and vomil 

 ing. When fresh clusters are broughl into ;i dark room, it is shown 

 bo be Btrongly phosphorescent. This phenomenon i- accompanied 

 by a Liberation of heat. Tin- species is oot found in Europe, and 

 was liisi discovered by Louis de Schweinitz in North Carolina. Mosl 

 of the photographs mentioned above look like Armillaria mellea 

 without rings. 1 have seen it Inn occasionally about Ann Arbor, 

 though Longyear marks ii "common." 



774. Clitocybe multiceps Pk. (Edible) 

 X. V. State Mns. Rep. 13, I S00. 



Illustrations: X. V. State Mns. Hull. L39, 1*1. 117. L910. 

 dark & Cantor, Mycologia, Vol. •".. PI. 52. 

 At kinsi.n. Mushrooms, I'd ed. 

 Mcllvaine, Amer. Mushrooms, PI. 27a, p. 94, 1900. 



Plate CLV1 I Of this P. ■port. 



PILE1 s .",-s cm. broad, thick on ilisk. firm, convex, whiti or 

 whitish, sometimes tinged gray or yellowish-gray, even, moist, 

 glabrous, regular or irregular. FLESH pure white. GILLS clc 

 adnate to slightly decurrent, sometimes sinuate, whitish, medium 

 lu-oail. STEM 5-10 cm. long, <; 12 nun. thick, stout, solid, equal <u- 

 slightly thickened at base, glabrous or prninose at apex, white or 



whitish. SPOKES globose, 5-8 micr. in diameter, si uh. white. 



TASTE slightly anpleasant. 



1 1 >ried : I Japs gra^ ish fau n polor, gills pale cinnamon, i 

 Very caespitose. Pastures, fields, grassy roadsides, open woods 

 usually of broad leaved trees. Ann Arbor, Baj View, Marquette, 

 New- Richmond, etc. June to October. Frequent. Edible but 

 not of the best variety for culinary purposes. 



Except in color ami in tin- nature of the cuticle of the cap. this 

 species approaches C. mrl Hnt/i tU a Pr.-s. The variations. j n t| lt . 



