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MUSHROOMS, EDIBLE AND OTHERWISE 



It grows on decayed wood. I found it in large quantities, and tried to make 

 it L. granulosa, but I found it fit- better L. amianthinus, which it resembles very 

 closely, but it is much larger and its habit is not the same. I was not satisfied 

 with this description and sent the specimens to Prof. Atkinson, who set me right 

 It is a beautiful plant found on decayed wood in September and October. 



FlCUtl 37. T.cpiota cepsestipes. Pilettt thin, white or yollowish. 



Lcpiota cepcrstipes. Sow. 

 The Onion Stemmed Lei-iota. Edible. 



Cepaestipes is from cepa, an onion and stipes, a stem. 1 'ileus is thin at first 

 ovate, then bell-shaped or expanded, umbonate. soon adorned with numerous 

 minute brownish scales, which are often granular or mealy, folded into lines on 

 the margin, white or yellow, the umbo darker. 



The gills are thin, close, free, white, becoming dingy with age or drying. 



The stem is rather long, tapering toward the apex, generally enlarged in the 

 middle or near the base, hollow. The ring is thin and subpersistent. The spores 

 are subelliptical, with a single nucleus, 8-10x5-8/1. 



