FIELD BOOK OF COMMON GILLED MUSHROOMS 



IDENTIFICATION BY TASTE (Continued) 



Taste 



Sweet 



Color of Cap 



Tawny- 

 rusty 



Remarks 



Sli 



to 2 inches broad, 

 light knob at center. 

 Edge turned in. Gills 

 notched; pallid to 

 tawny. Stem cream- 

 colored. 



Name 



Hebeloma 

 precox (56) 



IDENTIFICATION BY TIME (SEASON) OF GROWTH 



April 



Yellow or 

 tawny ; 

 darker at 

 center 



Whitish, 

 adorned 

 with 



scattered 

 yellowish 

 scales. 

 Turns 

 black 

 when old 



Buff yellow; 

 some- 

 times 

 glistening 

 with 

 minute 

 particles 

 when 

 young 



I to I H inches broad ; 

 in tufts; sticky when 

 moist ; stem brown ; 

 hairy when mature. 



Cap oblong or cylindric. 

 I /^ to 3 inches long 

 before spreading; liq- 

 uefies black when old. 



to 2 inches broad; 

 bell-shaped or ex- 

 panded. In clusters. 

 Gills liquefy black 

 when old. 



Collybia 



velutipes (36) 



Coprinus 

 comatus 

 Frontispiece 

 (38) 



Coprinus 



micaceus (39) 



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