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MUSHROOMS, EDIBLE AND OTHERWISE 



The plants are gregarious and grow among moss or among leaves in the 

 woods. This species is quite plentiful about Chillicothe. It is distinguished 

 from Leotia chlorocephala by the color of its stem and cap. The color of the 

 latter is green or dark green. They are found from July to frost. They are 

 edible but not choice. 



Figure; 425. Leotia lubrica. 



Leotia chlorocephala. Schzv. 



Figure 426. Leotia chlorocephala. 



Chlorocephala means green head. How- 

 ever, the entire plant is green. 



They grow in clusters, pileus round, de- 

 pressed, somewhat translucent, more or 

 less waxy, margin incurved, dark- 

 verdigris-green, sometimes rather dark- 

 green. 



The stem is rather short, almost equal; 

 green, but often paler than the cap, covered 

 with fine powdery dust, often twisted. 



Asci cylindric-clavate, apex rather nar- 

 rowed, 8-spored, spores smooth, hyaline, 

 ends acute, often slightly curved, 

 17-20x5^. 



The specimens in Figure 426 were 



