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MUSHROOMS, EDIBLE AND OTHERWISE 



Nyctalis. Fr. 



Xyctalis is from a Greek word meaning night. 



Pileus symmetrical, in some species bearing large conidia upon its surface. 

 The gills are adnate or decurrent, thick, soft, margin obtuse, ' 

 The stem is central, its substance continuous with the flesh of the pileus. 

 The spores are colorless, smooth, elliptical or globose. Pries. 



Xyctalis asterophora. Fr. 



Asterophora means 

 star-bearing. 



The pileus is about 

 one -half inch broad, 

 fleshy ; conical, then 

 hemispherical ; floc- 

 culose and rather 

 mealy, owing to the 

 large, stellate conidia; 

 whitish, then tinged 

 with fawn-color. 



The gills are ad- 

 nate, distant, narrow, 

 somewhat forked, 

 straight, dingy. 



The stem is about 

 one-half inch long, 

 slender, twisted, 

 stuffed, white then 

 brownish, rather 

 mealy. The spores 

 are elliptical, smooth, 

 3x2/*,. Fries, Hym. 



I found, about the 

 last of August, these plants growing on decaying specimens of Russula nigricans, 

 along Ralston's Run, near Chillicothe. 



Plato by C. G. Lloyd. 



PlCURI 1 6 j. Xyctalis asterophora. 



Hygrophoras. Fr. 



Hygrophorus is from two Creek words meaning bearing moisture. So called 

 because the members of this genus may be known from their moist caps and the 

 waxy nature of the gills, which distinguish them from all others. As in the 



