THE WHITB-SPORBD AGARICS 



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base, attenuated upward, clothed with fibres pure white. The Smooth Lepiota 

 is generally very regular in shape and of a pure white color. The central part 

 of the cap is sometimes tinged with yellow or a smoky white hue. Its surface 

 is nearly always very smooth and even. The gills are somewhat narrower toward 

 the stem than they are in the middle. They are rounded and not attached to the 

 stem. 



Cap two to four inches broad ; stem two to three inches long. It grows in 

 clean grassy places in lawn, pastures, and along roadsides. I have seen the road- 

 side white with this species around Sidney, Ohio. The specimens represented 

 in figure were found in Chillicothe, August to November. 



This is one of the best mushrooms, not inferior to the meadow mushroom, 

 it has this advantage over the former that the gills retain their white color and 

 do not pass from a pink to a repulsive black. The half-tone and the description 

 ought to make the plant known to the most casual reader. 



Figure 34. L,epiota americana. Center of disk red or reddish-brown, stem frequently swollen. 



turning red when drying. 



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