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MUSHROOMS, EDIBLE AND OTHERWISE 



The stem is paler than the pileus, fleshy, solid, firm, thickened upward, brown 

 spotted. 



The flesh is yellowish, changing to reddish or brownish when bruised. The 

 spores are rust-colored and elliptical, 8-iO/n. It is found on the ground and decayed 

 stumps. When found on the side of a decayed stump or a moss-covered log the 

 stem is usually eccentric, but in other cases it is generally central. 



It will be found around swampy places in an open woods. I found quite large 

 specimens around a swamp in Mr. Shriver's woods near Chillicothe, but they were 

 too far gone to photograph. It is edible but coarse. It appears from August to 

 November. Some authors call it the Brown Chantarelle. 



Paxillus atrotomentosus. Fr. 



Atrotomentosus is from ater, black, and tomentum, woolly or downy. 



The pileus is three 

 to six inches broad, 

 rust-color or reddish- 

 brown, compactly 

 fleshy, eccentric, con- 

 vex then plane or de- 

 pressed, margin thin, 

 frequently minutely 

 rivulose, sometimes 

 tomentose in the cen- 

 ter, flesh white, tinged 

 with brown under the 

 cuticle. 



The gills are at- 

 tached to the stem, 

 slightly decurrent, 

 crowded, branched at 

 the base, yellowish- 

 tawny, interspaces 

 venose. 



The stem is two to 

 three inches long, 

 stout, solid, elastic, 

 eccentric or lateral, 

 rooting, covered ex- 

 cept at the apex with 

 a dark-brown velvety 

 down. The spores are 

 elliptical, 5-6x3-4^. 



FicurB 233. Paxillus atrotomentosus. 



