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MUSHROOMS, EDIBLE AND OTHERWISE 



Hygrophorus niveus. 

 The Snow-White Hygrophorus. Edible. 



Niveus, snow-white. The plant is wholly white. The pileus is scarcely one 

 inch broad, somewhat membranaceous, bell-shaped, convex, then umbilicate, 

 smooth, striate, viscid when moist, not cracked when dry, flesh thin, everywhere 

 equal. 



The gills are decurrent, thin, distant, acute, quite entire. 



The stem is hollow, thin, equal, smooth. Spores 7x4^. Found in pastures. 



Figiki: 1 76. Hygrophorus sordidus. 



Hygrophorus sordidus. l'k. 

 Tin: Dingy Hygrophorus. Edible. 



Sordidus means a dirty white, or dingy, referring to the color of the caps, so 

 made by adhering earth. 



The pileus is broadly convex or nearly plane, glabrous, slightly viscid, white, 

 but usually defiled by adhering dirt: the margin at first Strongly involute, then 

 spreading or reflexed ; flesh firm when young, tough when old. 



