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MUSHROOMS. EDIBLE AND OTHERWISE 



Psathyrella hirta. Pk. 



Hirta means hairy, rough or shaggy. 



Pileus thin, hemispherical or convex, adorned when young with erect or spread- 

 ing tufts of white, easily determined and quickly evanescent hairs; hygrophanotis. 

 brown or reddish-brown and slightly striatulate when moist, pale grayish-brown 

 or dingy-whitish when dry, flesh subconcolorous ; lamella? broad, moderately close, 



Figum 281. Psathyrella hirta. 



adnate and often furnished with a decurreni tooth, at first pallid, becoming black- 

 ish-brown or black; stem flexuose. squamose, hollow, shining, white: spores 

 elliptical, black, .0005 to .00055 inch long. .OOO25 to 0003 broad. 



