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The golden-flesh tricholoma is easily known by its pale yellow 

 color and its farinaceous odor and taste. It is similar in color to 

 Tricholoma sulphureum Bull. Its cap is one to two 

 or sometimes two and a half inches broad, convex or nearly flat 

 above or occasionally with the margin curved upward. It is 

 smooth or slightly silky and its flesh is colored like the cap. In- 

 deed the plant is nearly uniform in color throughout, except in 

 old specimens in which the upper surface of the cap becomes 

 reddish. The lamellae are rather close, adnexed, usually veiny 

 in the interspaces and are apt to liecome dingy with age. The 

 stem is equal in diameter throughout, firm, smooth or somewhat 

 silky fibrillose, solid or rarely stuffed or slightly hollow when 

 large or old and colored like the pileus. It was found growing 

 under poplar trees among fallen leaves at Vaughns in Septem- 

 ber. When cooked it has an agreeable flavor but old specimens 

 are liable to be somewhat tough, though still very palatable. 



POISONOUS FUNGI 

 Mycena splendidipes Pk. 



POISON MYCENA 



Plate X 



Pileus at first ellipsoid, even, the upper half brown, the lower 

 half yellow, at length hemispheric or convex, submembranous, 

 widely striate on the margin, glabrous, greenish gray; lamellae 

 ascending, subdistant, white; stem slender, hollow, glabrous, 

 bright shining lemon yellow ; spores broadly ellipsoid or subglo- 

 bose, 6-8 x 4-6 [x. 



Pileus 6-10 lines broad ; stem 2-6 inches long, .5-1 line thick. 



Woods. Among fallen pine leaves. Richmond co. Novem- 

 ber. W. H. Ballou. 



This is a beautiful little Mycena, very attractive in appearance 

 by reason of its bright shining yellow stems and very interesting 

 on account of the great change in appearance caused by its 

 transformation from the young to the mature state. This is best 

 expressed by the figures given in the plate. It is a veritable 

 little siren. Its discoverer, venturing to eat a single sample of 

 it was made sick by the experiment, and has furnished a warn- 

 ing to all future generations against its dangerous qualities. 



