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The golden-flesh tricholoma is easily known by its pale yellow 
color and its farinaceous odor and taste. It is similar in color to 
Tricholoma sulphureum Bull. Its cap 1s one toma 
or sometimes two and a half inches broad, convex or nearly flat 
above or occasionally with the margin curved upward. It is 
smooth or slightly silky and its flesh is colored like the cap. In- 
deed the plant is nearly uniform in color throughout, except in 
old specimens in which the upper surface of the cap becomes 
reddish. The lamellae are rather close, adnexed, usually veiny 
in the interspaces and are apt to hecome dingy with age. The 
stem is equal in diameter throughout, firm, smooth or somewhat 
silky fibrillose, solid or rarely stuffed or slightly hollow when 
large or old and colored like the pileus. It was found growing 
under poplar trees among fallen leaves at Vaughns in Septem- 
ber. When cooked it has an agreeable flavor but old specimens 
are liable to be somewhat tough, though still very palatable. 
POISONOUS FUNG 
Mycena splendidipes Pk. 
POISON MYCENA 
Plate X 
Pileus at first ellipsoid, even, the upper half brown, the lower 
half yellow, at length hemispheric or convex, submembranous, 
widely striate on the margin, glabrous, greenish gray; lamellae 
ascending, subdistant, white; stem slender, hollow, glabrous, 
bright shining lemon yellow ; spores broadly ellipsoid or subglo- 
bose, 6-8 x 4-6 p. ; 
Pileus 6-10 lines broad; stem 2-6 inches long, .5-1 line thick. 
Woods. Among fallen pine leaves. Richmond co. Novem- 
ber. W. H. Ballou. 
This is a beautiful little Mycena, very attractive in appearance 
by reason of its bright shining yellow stems and very interesting 
on account of the great change in appearance caused by its 
transformation from the young to the mature state. This is best 
expressed by the figures given in the plate. It is a veritable 
little siren. Its discoverer, venturing to eat a single sample of 
it was made sick by the experiment, and has furnished a warn- 
ing to all future generations against its dangerous qualities. 
