Leucosporae 



hygrophanous, slightly fleshy, tough, convexo-plane, obtuse, commonly Coiiybia. 

 depressed in the center, even, smooth; margin at first inflexed then flat- 

 tened. Flesh thin, white. Stem 1-3 in. long, 1-3 lines thick, car- 

 tilaginous, remarkably tubed, thin, even, smooth, somewhat rooting, 

 commonly becoming yellow or reddish. Gills somewhat free, with a 

 small decurrent tooth, but appearing adnexed when the pileus is de- 

 pressed, crowded, narrow, distinct, plane, white or becoming pale. 



There are numerous monstrous forms which are very deceiving: a. 

 Stem elongated, waved, decumbent, inflated at the base ; pileus broader, 

 lobed; gills white, b. Fnnicnlaris , larger, cespitose, the lax and de- 

 cumbent stem equal and hairy at the base, gills sulphur-yellow. These 

 forms, analagous with A. repens Bull., occur on heaps of leaves, c. 

 Countless specimens growing together in a large cluster; stems thick, 

 inflated, irregularly shaped, sulcate, brown, the mycelium collecting the 

 soil in the form of a ball ; pileus very irregularly shaped, full of angles, 

 undulated, blackish then bay-brown. In gardens. Stevenson. 



Spores elliptic-fusiform, 7-8x4^; 6//. W.G.S. 



Professor Peck, 49th Rep. N. Y. State Bot., gives the following: 

 Pileus thin, convex or nearly plane, sometimes with the margin elevated, 

 irregular, obtuse, glabrous, varying in color, commonly some shade of 

 bay-red or tan-color. Flesh white. Lamellae narrow, crowded, ad- 

 nexed or almost free, white or whitish, rarely yellowish. Stem equal 

 or sometimes thickened at the base, cartilaginous, glabrous, hollow, yel- 

 lowish or rufescent, commonly similar in color to the pileus. Spores, 

 6-8x3-4^. 



Pileus 1-2 in. broad. Stem 1-2 in. long, 1-2 lines thick. 



Woods, groves and open places. Common. June to October. 



West Virginia, North Carolina, New Jersey, Pennsylvania. Mcll- 

 vaine. 



C. dryophila is so common and variable that descriptions would fail 

 to cover it in its eccentricities. The writer has eaten it in all the forms 

 obtained since 1881. A very pretty form grew in large quantities 

 among pine needles at Eagle's Mere, Pa., in August, 1897. It was 

 cooked and served at the hotel table. Many ate it and were delighted. 



Dr. Badham refers to a case in which illness was caused by eating it. 

 In my eighteen years' experience with it, knowing it to have been en- 

 joyably eaten by scores of persons, I have not heard of the slightest 

 discomfort from it. 



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