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MUSHROOMS, EDIBLE AND OTHERWISE 



The gills are narrow, close, adnate or slightly decurrent, gray, becoming 

 salmon color with age. 



The stem is short, solid or with a slight cavity, often slightly thickened at 



the top, pruinose, 

 gray, with a 

 white, mycelioid 

 tomentum at 

 the base. The 

 spores are angu- 

 lar, uninucleate, 

 salmon color, 

 .0003-.0004 of an 

 inch long, .00025- 

 0003 broad. Peck. 

 This is a very 

 small plant and 

 not frequently 

 found, but widely 

 distributed. I 

 have always 

 found it in open 

 grassy places 

 during damp 

 weather. The 

 caps are thin, 

 often markedly 

 depressed. Its 

 silky appearance 

 and narrow zones 

 on the margin of 

 the cap, together 

 with its rather 

 close gills, broad- 

 ly attached to the 

 stem, gray at 

 first, then salmon 

 color, will iden- 

 t i f v the species. 

 July to Septem- 

 ber. 



Figure 170. Hygrophorus Laura. 



