Brown-spored Series 



Stem or Stipe Hollow, white, and slender. 1-3 inches long. 



Spores Purplish brown, elliptical. 



Flesh Tender. 



Time Throughout a moist season. 



HabitatIn clusters, in lawns, gardens, thin woods, and pastures. 



Brick Top (Edible) 



Hypholoma sublateritium (SEE PLATE FACING PAGE 86) 



Cap or Pileus Brick red, with pale yellowish border. Surface 

 covered with fine silky fibres. Fleshy, firm, moist. 2^-4 

 inches broad. 



Stem or Stipe Creamy when young, lower part slightly tinged 



with red. 

 Hollow or 

 stuffed. Silky 

 fibres on the 

 surface. 2>- 

 4 inches long. 



Gills or Lamella 

 Creamy 

 when young, 

 olive when 

 old. Attached 

 to stem at 

 inner extrem- 

 ity. Rather 

 n arrow, 

 crowded, un- 

 equal. 



Ring or Annulus 

 None. Rem- 

 nants of veil 

 often seen on 

 edge of cap. 



Spores Brown. 



Flesh Creamy, 

 firm, bitter. 



Time Septem- 

 ber. 



Habitat The 

 s p eci me n 

 photo- 

 graphed 

 grew in clus- 

 ters on a 

 mossy stump 



Section of H. sublateritium in the Open. 



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