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MUSHROOMS, EDIBLE AND OTHERWISE 



Hygrophorus flavodiscus. Frost. 

 Yelu>w-disked Hygrophorus Edible. 



Flavodiscus means yellow-disked. 



The pileus is one-half to three inches broad, fleshy, convex or nearly plane, 

 glabrous, very viscid or glutinous, white, pale-yellow or reddish-yellow in the 

 center, flesh white. 



The gills are adnate or decurrent, subdistant, white, sometimes with a slight 

 flesh-colored tint, the interspaces sometimes venose. 



Figure 167. Hygrophorus flavodiscus. Natural size. The gluten is shown connecting the margin 



of the cap to their stem. 



The stem is one to three inches long, solid, subequal, very viscid, or gluti- 

 nous, white at the top, white or yellowish elsewhere. The spores are elliptical, 

 white, .00025 to .0003 of an inch long, .00016 to .0002 broad. 



These mushrooms make a delicious dish. The specimens in the photograph 

 were gathered at West Gloucester, Mass., by Mrs. E. 1>. Blackford, of Boston. 

 I have found them about Chillicothe. They are very viscid, as the plants in 

 Figure 167 will show. The caps are thick and the margin inrolled. They are 

 found in October and November. 



