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MUSHROOMS, EDIBLE AND OTHERWISE 



Faz'olus canadensis. Klotsch. 



The pileus is fleshy, tough, thin, kidney-form, fibrillose, scaly, tawny, becom- 

 ing pale and smooth. 



The pores or alveoli are angular elongated, white at first, then straw- 

 color. 



The stem is eccentric, lateral, very short or lacking altogether. 



This plant is very common around Chillicothe on fallen branches in the 

 woods, especially on hickory. Found from September to frost. Not poisonous 

 but too tough to eat. I do not believe there is any difference between F. 

 canadensis and Favolus Europeus. I notice that our plant assumes dif- 

 ferent colors in different stages of its growth, and the form of the pores also 

 changes. 



Cyclomyces. Kunz & Fr. 



Cyclomyces is from two Greek words, meaning a circle and fungus. This 

 genus is very distinct from other tube-bearing genera. The pileus is fleshy, 

 leathery or membranaceous, and usually cushion-formed. Upon the lower surface 

 are the plate-like bodies resembling the gills of Agarics but which are composed 

 of minute pores. These pore bodies are arranged in concentric circles around 



the stem. 



Cyclomyces Greenii. Berk. 



The pileus is two to three inches broad, 

 globose at first, convex, sometimes undulate, 

 somewhat zoned, tomentose, dry, cushion- 

 formed, cinnamon-brown, rather showy. 



The gills are in concern ric circles around the 

 stem, growing larger and larger as they reach 

 the margin of the cap. In the young plant the 

 gills are divided into long divisions but in 

 the older plant these division lines disappear 

 as will be seen in Figure 361. The edges of 

 the gills are white at first, as will be seen in 

 Figure 361, but finally becoming cinnamon- 

 brown. 



The stem is central, tapering upward, quite 

 large and swollen at times very much like 

 Hydnum spongiosipes ; the color is the same as 

 the pileus. 



