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MUSHROOMS, EDIBLE AND OTHERWISE 



disappear with age. The caps of mushrooms should not ordinarily be peeled before 

 cooking, but it is better to peel this one. 



The ring is slight and the specimens represented here were found on a stump 

 in Miss Effie Mace's yard, on Paint Street, Chillicothe. 



Figure 211. Pholiota adiposa. Two-thirds natural size. Caps saffron-yellow. 



Pholiota caperata. Pers. 



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Caperata means wrinkled. 



The pileus is three to four inches broad, fleshy, varying from a clay to a 

 yellowish color, at first somewhat egg-shaped, then expanded, obtuse, wrinkled at 

 the sides, the entire cap and especially at the center is covered with a white 

 superficial flocci. 



The gills are adnate or attached t<> the Stem, rather crowded, this, somewhat 

 toothed on their edges, clay-cinnamon color. Spores elliptical. 1 2x4. s>. 



The stem is four to five inches long, solid, Stout, round, somewhat bulbous at 



