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MUSHROOMS, EDIBLE AND OTHERWISE 



TRIBE V. TELAMONIA. 



Cor ti iiar ins Morrisii. Pk. 



Morrisii is named in honor of George E. Morris, Ellis, Mass. 



Pileus fleshy, except the thin and at length reflexed margin ; convex, irregular, 

 hygrophanous, ochraceous or tawny-ochraceous ; flesh thin, colored like the pileus ; 

 odor weak, like that of radishes. 



The gills are broad, subdistant, eroded or uneven on the edge; rounded 

 behind, adnexed, pale-yellow when young, becoming darker with age. 



The stem is nearly equal, fibrillose, solid, whitish or pale-yellow and silky at 



Figure 242. Cortinarius Morrisii. 



the top, colored like the pileus below and fibrillose; irregularly striate and sub- 

 reticulate, the double veil whitish or yellowish-white and sometimes forming an 

 imperfect annulus. 



The spores are tawny-ochraceous, subglobose or broadly elliptic, nucleate, 

 8-io/x long, 6-7 p. broad. Peck. 



Pileus 3-10 cm. broad; stem 7-10 cm. long, 1-2 cm. thick. 



They require moist and shady plaees and the presence of hemlock trees. They 

 are found from August to October. The plants in Figure -'4- were found near 

 Boston by Mrs. E. B. Blackford. 



