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MUSHROOMS, EDIBLE AND OTHERWISE 



Flam inula fusus. Batsch. 



Fusus means a spindle ; so called from the spindle-shaped stem. 



The pileus is compact, convex, then expanded, even, rather viscid, reddish-tan, 

 flesh yellowish. 



The gills are somewhat decurrent, pallid yellow, becoming ferruginous. 



The stem is stuffed, firm, colored like the pileus, fibrillose, striate, attenuated 

 and somewhat fusiform, rooting. The spores are broadly elliptical, 10x4^. 



Found on well-decayed logs or on ground made up largely of decayed wood. 

 Found from July to October. 



Flam inula fillius. Vr. 



The pileus is two to three inches .broad, even, smooth, with rather viscid 

 cuticle, pale orange-red with the disc reddish. 



The gills are attached to the stem, arcuate, rather crowded, white, then pallid 

 or tawny-yellow. 



'Hie stem is three to five inches long, hollow, smooth, pallid, reddish within. 

 The spores are elliptical, 10x5/1. 



Found on the ground in the woods from July to October. 



Figure 231. Flammula squalida. 



Flam inula squalida. Pk. 



The pileus is one to one and a half inches broad, 

 fleshy, convex, or plane, firm, viscose, glabrous, 

 dingy-yellowish or rufescent. flesh whitish but in 

 color similar to the pileus under the separate 

 cuticle. 



The gills are rather broad, adnate, pallid, be- 

 coming dark ferruginous. 



The stem is one and a half to three inches long. 

 one to two lines thick, slender, generally flexuose. 

 hollow fibrillose, pallid or brownish, pale-yellow 

 at the top when young: spores are brownish- 

 ferruginous, .0003 inch long, .00016 broad. Peck. 



It is found in bushy and swampy places. Dr. 

 Peck says it is closely related to F. spumosa. Its 

 dingy appearance, slender habit, more uniform 

 and darker color of the pileus. and darker color 

 of the lamella?. Tt grows in groups. The plant in 

 Figure 231 was found in Purgatory Swamp, by 

 Mrs. Blackford, found in August and September. 



