Fungi with Gills 



II— TASTE BITTER 



H. elseodes 



Gills — Green to olive. 



Cap — Brick red. 



Stem — Hollow, rusty. 



Flesh — Yellow. 

 7«j/^— Bitter. 



H. fasciculare 



Tufted Yellow Mush- 

 room 



Gills — Ye How to 

 green. 



Cap — Yellow tinged 

 with tawny. 



Stem — Hollow, yel- 

 low. 



Flesh— ^tWo^N. 



Taste— '^WXq.X. 



Reputed poisonous. 



H. sublateritium 

 Brick-red Mush- 

 room 



G^/&— Whitish to 

 sooty olive. 



Cap — Brick red. 



Stem — Solid or 

 stuffed. 



/7^^//— Whitish. 



Taste — Bitter. 



Reputed poisonous and 

 edible. 



Uncertain Hypholonna (Edible) 



Hypholoma incertum 



fragile, whitish. Margin often wavy 



Cap or F ileus — Thin, 



and adorned 



with the frag- 

 ments of the 

 * woolly whiteveil. 



Opaque when 



dry, transparent 



when moist. 



Ovate at first, 



then broadly 



spreading, \-2y2 



inches wide. 

 Gills or Lamella — 



Thin, narrow, 



close; fastened to 



the stem at their 



inner extremity. 



White at first, 



then purplish 



brown. Section of H. incertum 



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