Fungi with Gills 



II— TASTE BITTER 



H. elaeodes 



Gills — Green to olive. 



Cap — Brick red. 



Stem — Hollow, rusty. 



Flesh — Yellow. 

 Taste — Bitter. 



H. fasciculare 

 Tufted Yellow Mush- 

 room 



Gills — Yel low to 



green. 



Cap — Yellow tinged 

 with tawny. 



Sie/n — Hollow, yel- 

 low. 



Flesh— YqWov^. 



7a j-/^— Bitter. 



Reputed poisonous. 



H. sublateritium 

 Brick-red Mush- 

 room 



G7/A— W h i t i s h to 

 sooty olive. 



Cap — Brick red. 



Ste7?i — Solid or 

 stuffed. 



Flesh— \N\\\Ws.h. 



Taste — Bitter. 



Reputed poisonous and 

 edible. 



Uncertain Hypholoma (Edible) 



Cap or P ileus — Thin, 

 and adorned 

 with the frag- 

 ments of the 

 woolly white veil. 

 Opaque when 

 dry, transparent 

 when moist. 

 Ovate at first, 

 then broadly 

 spreading. 1-2^2 

 inches wide. 



Gills or Lamellce — 

 Thin, narrow, 

 close; fastened to 

 the stem at their 

 inner extremity. 

 White at first, 

 then purplish 

 brown. 



Hypholoma incerhun 

 fragile, whitish. 



Margin 



often wavy 



El'-ce-o'-des 



Fasc'-Kc-u-la'-re 



Section of H. incertum 

 Sub-la-ter-I'-sM-um In-9er'-tum 



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