MYCOLOGIA 



Vol. IV January, 1912 No. i 



ILLUSTRATIONS OF FUNGI— X 



William A. Murrill 



All of the accompanying illustrations were drawn from speci- 

 mens collected in the vicinity of Bronx Park. They are repro- 

 duced here natural size, but some of them, especially figures 5, 6, 

 and 12, represent rather small forms of the species in question. 



Hypholoma appendiculatum (Bull.) Quel. 

 Appendiculate Hypholoma 



Plate 56. Figures i and 2. X i 



Pileus fleshy, fragile, thin, convex to expanded, cespitose or gre- 

 garious, 2-6 cm. broad; surface glabrous or whitish-pulverulent,, 

 rarely floccose-scaly, usually cracking with age, hygrophanous, 

 varying in color from pale-yellowish to light-brown or dark honey- 

 yellow, fading when old or dry; lamellae adnate, close, narrow, 

 white or creamy-white to purplish-brown ; spores ovoid, smooth, 

 purplish-brown, 7 X 4 ; stipe slender, equal, hollow, white, gla- 

 brous below, pruinose at the apex, 5-7 cm. long, 4-6 mm. thick; 

 veil white, delicate, evanescent, clinging to the margin of young 

 plants as shred-like appendages. 



This is everywhere recognized as one of the best and most 

 dainty edible species. It is very widely distributed and grows in 

 abundance throughout the season about dead wood or in soil rich 

 in decayed wood. The two figures represent two color forms 

 found growing together at the base of an elm. 



[Mycologia for November, 1911 (3: 271-304), was issued November 20, 1911J 



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