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MUSHROOMS, EDIBLE AND OTHERWISE 



This resembles the C. infundibuliformis very (jjosely, both in its appearance 

 and its habit. It grow> among leaves in mixed woods during wet weather. It 

 is gregarious, often many stems growing from one mass of mycelium. The plants 

 in Figure 74 were collected in Ackerman's woods near Columbus. ( )hio. and were 

 photographed by Dr. Kellerman. They are found on all the hillsides about 

 Chillicothe. Found from July to late in October. 



Figure 74. Clitocybe flaccida. One-half natural size. 



Clitocybe monadelpha. Morg, 

 The One-Brotherhood Clitocybe. Edible. 



Monadelpha is from monos, one and adelphos, brother. 



Prof. Morgan of Preston, Ohio, gives the following description of the One- 

 Brotherhood Clitocybe in the Mycological Flora of the Miama Valley: "Densely 

 cespitose. Pileus fleshy, convex, then depressed, at first glabrous, then scaly, 

 honey-colored, varying to pallid-brown or reddish. The stem elongated, solid. 

 crooked, twisted, fibrous, tapering at the base, pallid-brownish or flesh color. 

 Spores white, a little irregular, .0055MM.'* 



