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MUSHROOMS, EDIBLE AND OTHERWISE 



subulate, 2-5 mm. long, yellowish-gray, becoming brown with age or drying; 

 stem equal or stuffed, becoming hollow in drying; glabrous, colored like the 

 pileus; spores brown, globose, verrucose, 8-10/x broad. 



The pileus is 2.5-6 cm. broad ; stem 2.5-4 cm. long, 3-4 mm. thick. 



Mossy ground in low springy places in damp mixed woods. August. Peck. 



This species was found at Ellis, Mass., and was sent to me through courtesy 

 of the collector, Mrs. E. B. Blackford, Boston, for whom it was named. 



Hydnum fennicum. Karst. 



Pileus fleshy, fragile, unequal ; at first scaly, at length breaking up ; reddish- 

 brick color becoming darker ; margin undulately lobed, two to four inches broad. 

 Flesh white.- 



The teeth decurrent, equal, pointed, from white to dusky, about 4 mm. long. 

 The stem is sufficiently stout, unequal below, attenuated, flexuous or curved, 

 smooth, of the same color as the cap, base acute, white tomentum outside, 

 inside light pale-blue, or dark-gray. 



The spores are ellipso-spheroidical or subspheroidical, rough, dusky, 4-6/x 



long, 3-5^ broad. 



The plants in 

 Figures 372 and 

 373 were found in 

 Haynes' Hollow. 



The plant is quite 

 bitter and no 

 amount of cooking 

 will make it edible. 

 Found in woods 

 from August to 

 September. 



Hydnum adustum. 

 Fr. 



Adustum means 

 scorched, burned. 

 The pileus is two to 

 three inches broad, 

 yellowish - white, 



Figure 373. Hydnum fennicum. Natural size, showing the scaly cap. blarkish around the 



margin, coriaceous, slightly zoned; plane at first, then slightly depressed; tomen- 



