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MUSHROOMS, EDIBLE AND OTHERWISE 



Inocybe subochracea Burtii. Peck. 



This is a very interesting species. It is thus described by Dr. Peck : "Veil 

 conspicuous, webby fibrillose, margin of the pileus more fibrillose; stem longer and 

 more conspicuously fibrillose. The well developed veil, and the longer stem, are 

 the distinguishing characters of this variety." 



The plants are found in mossy patches on the north hillsides about Chillicothe. 

 The pale ochraceous yellow and the very fibrillose caps and stem will attract the 

 attention of the collector at once. The caps are one to two and a half inches 

 broad and the stem is two to three inches long. 



Inocybe subochracea. Peck. 



Pileus thin, conical or convex, sometimes expanded, generally umbonate, 

 fibrillose squamulose, pale ochraceous-yellow. 



The gills are rather broad, attached, emarginate, whitish, becoming brownish- 

 yellow. 



The stem is equal, whitish, slightly fibrillose, solid. Peck. 



This is a small plant from one to two inches high whose cap is scarcely over 

 an inch broad. It grows in open groves where the soil is sandy. It is found on 

 Cemetery Hill from June to October. 



Inocybe geophylla, var. violacea. Pat. 



PlCUJtl 219. Inocybe geophylla, var. violacea. 



This is a small 

 plant and has all 

 the characteristics 

 of Inocybe geo- 

 phylla excepting 

 color of cap and 

 gills. 



The pileus is an 

 inch to an inch 

 and a half broad, 

 hemispherical at 

 first, then expand- 

 ed, u m b i> n a t e, 

 even, silky - fib- 

 rillose. lilac. 

 growing paler in 

 age. 



