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MUSHROOMS, EDIBLE AND OTHERWISE 



Figure 



English. 



that has 



The 



with a tooth, becoming easily 

 separated from the stem, shin- 

 ing, yellowish, then tawny-yel- 

 low. 



The stem is slender, equal, 

 stuffed or hollow, thin, clothed 

 with small fibres, yellow, as is 

 also the flesh. The spores are 

 elliptical. This plant is so 

 called because of its color, the 

 entire plant being of a cin- 

 namon-color. Sometimes there 

 are cinnabar stains on the 

 pileus. It seems to grow best 

 under pine trees, but I have 

 found it in mixed woods. My 

 attention was called to it by 

 the little Bohemian boys pick- 

 ing it when they had been in 

 this country but a few days 

 and could not speak a word of 

 It is evidently like the European species. There is also a Cortinarius 

 blood-red gills. It is var. semi-sanguineus, Fr. July to October, 

 plants in Figure 239 were found on Cemetery Hill, Chillicothe, O. 



239. Cortinarius cinnamoneus. Two-thirds natural 

 size. Caps cinnamon-brown. Stems yellow. 



Figure 240. Cortinarius ochroleucus. Two-thirds natural size, showing 

 veil and bulbous form of item. 



