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MUSHROOMS, EDIBLE AND OTHERWISE 



lintoloma rhodopolium. Fr. 

 The; Rose-Gray Entou>ma. 



Rhodopolium is composed of two Greek words, rose and gray. 



The pileus is two to five inches broad, hygrophanous ; when moist dingy- 

 brown or livid, becoming pale when dry, isabelline-livid, silky-shining; slightly 

 fleshy, bell-shaped when young, then expanded and somewhat umbonate, or 

 gibbous, at length rather plane and sometimes depressed ; fibrillose when young, 

 smooth when full grown ; margin at first bent inwards and when large, undulated. 

 Flesh white. 



The gills adnate, then separating, somewhat sinuate, slightly distant, broad, 

 white, then rose color. 



The stem is two to four inches long, hollow ; equal when smaller, when 

 larger, attenuated upward ; white pruinate at the apex, otherwise smooth ; slightly 

 striate, white, often reddish from spores. Spores 8-iox6-8/i,. Fries. 



The plant is found in mixed woods and is rather common. Captain Mc- 

 Ilvaine reports it edible, but I have never eaten any of the Entolomas. Some of 

 them have a bad reputation. Found in September and October. 



Entoloma grayanum. Pk. 



The pileus is convex to expanded, sometimes broadly umbonate, drab in 

 color, the surface wrinkled or rugose, and watery in appearance. The flesh is 



thin and the margin in- 

 curved. 



The gills are at first drab 

 in color, but lighter than the 

 pileus, becoming pinkish in 

 age. The spores on paper 

 are very light salmon-color. 

 They are globose or rounded 

 in outline, 5-7 . angled, with 

 an oil globule, 8-io/a in di- 

 ameter. 



The stem is of the same 

 color as the pileus, but 

 lighter, striate, hollow, some- 

 what twisted, and enlarged 

 below. The above accurate 

 description was taken from 



PlCUM i 97 .-F.ntoloma grayanum. One-half natural size. ^ nSOn's Studies of Ameri- 



