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Cup, white dotted over with fragments of a brownish or 

 yellowish skin; gills, white at first, then green; spores, green; 

 flesh, white, but changing to a reddish then yellowish when 

 cut or bruised. This immense toadstool is found in mead- 

 ows all summer long, usually in rings of many individuals; 

 it is poisonous to some and not to others, but is never deadly 

 so far as known. 



Sulphur Tricholoma (Tricholotna suphureum), two to 

 four inches high : cap one to four inches apart, dingy or red- 

 dish sulphur yellow above; flesh, thick and yellow; spores, 

 white; stem, yellow inside and out; has a bad smell and a 

 worse taste ; is considered noxious if not actively poisonous. 

 It is the only inedible Tricholoma known. 



Deceiving Clitocybe {Clitocyhe illudens). This grows 

 in clusters on rotten stumps or trees from August to Octo- 

 ber. It is everywhere of a deep yellow or orange, often it is 

 phosphorescent. Each plant is four to six inches across the 

 cap and five to eight inches high. It is usually nauseating 

 and emetic. 



Russula {Russula emetica). This is known at once by its 

 exquisite rosy red cap, and its white gills, flesh and stalk. 

 Sometimes the last is tinged rosy. It is a short stemmed 

 mushroom two to four inches high; its cap pinkish when 

 young, dark red or rosy red when older, fading to straw 

 color in age; its gills and spores, white. Its peppery taste 

 when raw is a fairly safe identification. In most books it is 

 classed as "slightly poisonous," but Mcllvaine maintains 

 that it is perfectly wholesome. I know that I never yet 

 saw one that was not more or less gnawed by the discrimi- 

 nating little wood folk that know a good thing when they 

 smell it. 



Woolly or Burning Marasmius {Marasmius urens), two 

 to three inches high; cap two to three inches wide, pale yel- 

 lowish, becoming paler; spores, white; gills, brown, paler 



