UBRARY 

 NEW YORK 

 BOTANICAL 



Mvcological Bulletin No. 19 



W. A. KeUerman. I'll. V., Ohio State Unirersity 



Columbus. Ohio. Jiil/i 15, 1904 



Ackxo\vled(;ment. — TTe aiv indebted to Professor L. F. Henderson for the 

 use of the plate from which Fijf. 68 is printed. This with other figures appear 

 in a Bulletin (No. 27) of the Idaho Experiment Station, on the i'ood values of 

 fungi. Those interested in that phase of the suhject will find in that Bulletin 

 a summary of our knowledge thereto pertaining. In this connection attention 

 might be called to Professor Atkinson's instructive chapters (in Mushrooms 

 I'idible and Poisonous) on Selection and Preparation of Mushrooms for the 

 Table; Uses of Mushrooms; ('ultivatioii of Mushrooms; Recipes for (booking 

 Musjirooms; Cliemistry and Toxicology of Mushrooms. 



^;^TnE (JKNi's Hy-piio-lo'-ma. — This is included in the section of Brown- 

 spored Agarics, the spores being purple brown. The veil when ruptured clings 

 to the margin of the pileus so that rarelj' or never is there present, on the stem, 

 a ring or annulus. The genus is closely related to A-gor'-i-CKS and .S7;v>- 

 j)li(i'-ri-(t. but in these genera an annulus is present. Several species of 

 Hi/pho-Io'-nifi are common and they are edible. F(uir species are illustrated 

 l)V half-tones and fullv described in Atkinson's Mushrooms. Mc I lvalue 



Flu. 07. — Ma-kas'-mi-ts ko'-tu-i.a. 'riiis 1ic;nitifiil little Miiriis'-ini-UN ;;f(i\v« on stieks aiul liMvi-s 

 luiil si-iMiis to 1)1' 11 ooiiiiiioii specii's in our wooils. Tlic i)ilt'us is (inc Imll' inch or le.s.s in brciidtli. iind 

 wliitr or whitish in color. Tin- stem or stijie is whitish iiliovc. Morgun ilcscrilicH the species a« tVil- 

 lows: I'ilens ineniliriuiiiccons. a little convex, iniibilicate. |iliente ; stipe horny, hollow, sliitlin^, 

 illiilirous, hlaekish ; liiinelUe lew, broml. distant, joined behind to a free collar, whitish. Tho out 

 above wuh luude from a photograph of spi'oinii'ns i-oUeeted lu a woods near CoUimljus. 



University Bulletin. Series 8. Xo. 



Entered as Second Class Matter, PostofBce at Columbus. 0. 



