272 MUSHROOMS, EDIBLE AND OTHERWISE 



The stem is solid, slender, scaly, somewhat lighter than the pileus. The 

 spores are 8- 10x5/*. 



This plant seems to be a late grower. I did not find it till about the 15th 

 of October and it continued till the last of November. I had found two other 

 species on the same hill earlier in the season. No Inocybes are good to eat. 



fnocybe pyriodora. Pers. 



Pyriodora, smelling like a pear. The pileus is one to two inches broad, quite 

 strongly umbonate, at first conical, expanded, covered with fibrous adpresscd 

 scales, in old plants the margin turned up, smoky or brown-ochre becoming pale. 



The gills are notched at the stem, not crowded, dingy-white, becoming nearly 

 cinnamon-brown, somewhat ventricose. 



The stem is two to three inches long, stuffed, firm, equal, pale, apex pruinose, 

 veil very fugacious. Flesh tinged with red. 



Common in the woods in September and October. The plant is not edible. 



Inocybe rimosa. Bull. 

 The Cracked Inocybe. 



Rimosa, cracked. The pileus is one to two inches broad, shining, satiny, 

 adpressed fibrillose, brown-yellow, campanulate, then expanded, longitudinally 

 cracked. 



The gills are free, somewhat ventricose, at first white, brownish-clay color. 



The stem is one to two inches high, distant from the pileus, solid, firm, nearly 

 smooth, bulbous, mealy white above. Spores smooth, 10-11x6^. 



I. eutheles differs from this species in being umbonate ; I. pyriodora in its 

 strong smell. Many plants will often be found in one place in open woods or in 

 cleared places. Their radiately cracked pilei, with the inner substance showing 

 yellow through the cracks, will help to distinguish the species. Found from June 

 to September. 



Hcbt-loma. I'r. 



Hebeloma is from two Greek words meaning youth and fringed. Partial 

 veil fibrillose or absent. Pileus is smooth, continuous, somewhat viscid, margin 

 incurved. The gills are notched adnate, edge of different color, whitish. The 

 spores clay-color. All found on the ground. 



