COMMON MUSHROOMS OF THE UNITED STATES 



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Photograph by C. Cramer 



THIS GREEN-GiLLED LEPioTA (Lepiota morgani) is poisonous 



Beware of this false Parasol mushroom. It differs from the true edible Parasol mush- 

 room (Plate XIV and page 439) in its greenish gills, coarser scales, and larger size. These 

 two young specimens were photographed on a lawn in Washington. D. C. Approximately 

 natural si;^e. This Goliath of Mushrooms, the green-gilled Lepiota, is especially plentiful in 

 the Mississippi Valley, but it also occurs in the Middle and South Atlantic States, in South 

 America, in the West Indies, and probably in Bohemia and in the Philippines. Its habitat is 

 in rich pastures, cultivated ground, in open woods, and on lawns in cities: time, June to 

 October. 



