GENERA AND SPECIES OF MUSHROOMS 



suggestive of Its name. Many of the species grow on wood 

 and are tufted (cespitose) in their mode of growth. The 

 spores are brown or purplish-brown. The genus resembles in 

 structure the white-spored genus Tricholoma, the pink- 

 spored Entoloma and the rusty-spored Hebeloma. When 

 there is a well-developed veil hanging from the margin of 

 the cap the specimen must be carefully distinguished from 

 Stropharia on the one hand and from Psilocybe on the other 

 hand if the veil is scanty or missing. Peck. 



Species of Hypholoma 

 Hypholoma appendiculatum; appendiculate hypholoma. 

 Species 63. Figure 21. 



On decaying wood; chiefly in woods of hilly districts; in 

 dense tufts; August to October; edible. 



Cap bay-brown or tawny-brown when moist; brownish- 

 yellow and wrinkled when dry; egg-shaped or convex when 

 young, expanded when mature; thin; fleshy; smooth; water- 

 soaked in appearance when moist (hygrophanous) ; delicate 

 fragments of the veil attached to the margin of the cap in 

 young specimens; i to 2 inches broad. 



Gills attached to the stem (adnate); close together; white 

 or creamy white when young, turning purplish-brown when 

 old. 



Stem slender; cylindric; smooth or frosted at the top; 

 white; hollow; 2 to 3 inches long. 



Spores purplish-brown; egg-shaped; smooth; 7x4 microns 

 in diameter. 



This is everywhere recognized as one of the best and most 

 dainty edible species. It is widely distributed and grows in 

 abundance throughout the season about dead wood or in 

 soil that is rich in decayed wood. Murrill. 



The peculiar characters of the species are its tendency to 

 form tufts, to grow chiefly on decaying wood, to be very 



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