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stem. Tlie latter is often twisted and usually attenuated upwards, color 

 pale brown. It has a long tapering root entering deepl}^ into the soil. 

 This species is solitary in habit, and is commonly found in grass, or near 

 decayed stumps. Cap from 2 to 3 inches in diameter, stem 6 inches to 10 

 inches in length. 



Collybia esculenta Jacq., a small species found in pine woods as well as 

 in pastures in the spring, is recorded as edible by a number of authors. 

 In this species the cap is nearly plane, obtuse, and smooth, brownish ; 

 gills adnate, whitish; stem very slender, fistulose, equal, tough, smooth, 

 reddish clay color, deeply rooting. 



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APPENDIX. 



As Chief of the Division of Microscopy, U. S. Department of Agriculture, 

 the author prepared for the World's Columbian Exposition at Chicago a 

 collection of models of edible and poisonous mushrooms, for which a medal 

 and diploma were there awarded. The same collection, which now be- 

 longs to the Museum of the DejDartment of Agriculture, was exhibited 

 at the Atlanta Cotton Exposition in 1895, where a diploma was again 

 awarded for it, and has since been exhibited at the exposition of 1897 in 

 Nashville, Tenn. The models composing this collection, about one thou- 

 sand in number, were made from actual specimens and colored to nature, 

 the same species being generally represented by numerous specimens so 

 as to illustrate the various stages in the life of the plant, habit of growth, 

 etc. 



The following is a list of the mushrooms represented in this collection, 

 among which there are types of most of the genera in which species re- 

 corded as edible occur : 



Amanita desarea Schaeff. " Orange Amanita." Edible, 



Amanita rubesceyis Pers. " The Blusher." " Eeddish-Brown Amanita.'" 

 Edible. 



Amanita strohiliformls Vitt. "Fir-Cone" or "Pine-Cone Amanita." 

 Edible. 



k.VLiix.miB. panther inus T>. C. " Panther Mushroom."" Poisonous. 



Amanita ^;Aa^/oif?es Fr. " Poison Amanita." Poisonous. 



Amanita rm^scarea Linn. " Fly Amanita."" " False Orange." Poison- 

 ous. 



Amanita verna Bull. "Spring Mushroom."' "Vernal Amanita." 

 Poisonous. 



Amanitopsis vaginata Roze. " The Grizette.^'' " Sheathed Amanitop- 

 sis." Edible. 



Lepiota^^/'oC(3?v« Scop. " Parasol Mushroom.'" " Tall Lepiota." Edi- 

 ble. 



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