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MUSHROOMS, EDIBLE AND OTHERWISE 



These plants are small and quite rare, yet I have found the plants in 

 Haynes' Hollow on three different occasions. Dr. Peck writes that it is a very 

 rare plant. It grows on old stumps and decayed logs. The plants in figure 

 were found in Haynes' Hollow and photographed by Dr. Kellerman. 



Stropharia. Fr. 



Stropharia is from the Greek, strophos, a sword belt. The spores are bright 

 purple-brown, brown or slate color. The flesh of the stem and the pileus is 

 continuous. The veil, when ruptured, forms a ring on the stem. The gills 



are rounded and are 

 not free. 



The genus can be dis- 

 tinguished from all the 

 genera of the purple- 

 spored plants except 

 the Agarics by the pres- 

 ence of a ring and by 

 the united flesh of the 

 stem and the cap and 

 by the attachment of 

 the gills. They grow- 

 on the ground or are 

 elliptical. 



Photo by C. G. Lloyd. 

 Figure 260. Stropharia semiglobata. 



Stropharia semiglobata. 

 Batsch. 



Thk Semiglobose 

 Stropharia. 



!" di 1:1.1:. 



Semiglobata semi, 

 halt; globus, a ball. 

 The pileus is somewhat 



fleshy at the center, thin 

 at the margin, hemis- 

 pherical, not expanded, 

 even, viscid when 



moist. 



