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Crepidotus malachius B. & C. 



SOFT SKIXXED CREPIDOTUS 

 PLATE 112, FIG. I -4 



Pileus fleshy, thin on the margin, thicker at the base, reniform, 

 orbicular, cuneate or flabellate, convex or nearly plane, sometimes 

 depressed behind, sessile or with a very short inconspicuous white 

 tonientose stem, glabrous or slightly tomentose at the base, 

 hygrophanous, watery white or grayish white and striatulate on the 

 thin margin when moist, white when dry, flesh white ; lamellae thin, 

 close, rounded behind, white or whitish becoming brownish ferru- 

 ginous ; spores globose, .00025-0003 of an inch broad. 



The soft-skinned crepidotus is a common species and grows on 

 damp decaying wood in woods or shaded places. Much decayed 

 prostrate mossy trunks of trees constitute a favorite habitat for it. 

 It may be scattered, gregarious or imbricated in its mode of growth. 

 It occurs from June to September. The cap is 1-2.5 inches broad 

 and is sessile, or if it has a stem this is so short that the cap appears 

 from above to be sessile. In wet weather or after rain it has a 

 water soaked appearance and slight shadowy striations on the 

 margin. As the moisture escapes, the cap becomes a clearer white 

 and the striations disappear. The moisture disappears from the 

 thickest part of the cap first, the thinnest part last. The species may 

 be separated from our other white and closely allied forms by its 

 more glabrous cap and globose spores. 



Stropharia bilamellata Pk. 



DOUBLE GILLED STROPHARIA 



PLATE 112, FIG. 5-IO 



Pileus fleshy, convex, becoming nearly plane in large plants, even, 

 obtuse, glabrous, whitish or yellowish, -flesh white; lamellae thin, 

 close, adnate, purplish brown in the mature plant ; stem commonly 

 short, solid, sometimes hollow in large plants, white, annulate, the 

 annulus thick, white, with lamellae on the upper surface ; spores 

 elliptic, .0004-.0005 of an inch long, 0002-.0003 broad. 



The double gilled stropharia is a rare species of which the first 

 specimens received were collected in California. A second collec- 

 tion, of which samples were received, was made in Washington, 

 D. C, and a third which enabled me to test its edibility was received 



