Murrill: Illustrations of Fungi 
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Entoloma Grayanum Peck 
Gray’s Entoloma 
Plate 92. Figure 4. X i 
Pileus convex to plane, gregarious, 5-8 cm. or more broad ; sur- 
face smooth, glabrous, hygrophanous, dark-avellaneous to subum- 
brinous, margin entire, concolorous ; context white, odor and taste 
farinaceous; lamellae adnate or slightly sinuate, subdistant, ven- 
tricose, white to rosy, the edges undulate ; spores subglobose, angu- 
lar, rose-colored, 7-9/x.; stipe equal or tapering downward, shin- 
ing-white, longitudinally striate, glabrous, solid, white within, 6-10 
cm. long and i cm. thick. 
This species is quite common in woods in eastern North Amer- 
ica during late summer and autumn. It is well to avoid species of 
Entoloma when gathering mushrooms for the table. Two Euro- 
pean species, E. lividum and E. sinuatum, are recognized as 
poisonous. 
Ceriomyces fumosipes (Peck) Murrill 
Smoky-stemmed Ceriomyces 
P late 92. Figure 5. X i 
Pileus convex, 4-7 cm. broad, about 1-1.5 cm. thick; surface 
tomentose, avellaneous with light-bay spots to umbrinous or dark 
olive-brown, very distinctly reticulate-rimose, the cracks becoming 
wider and whitish in color in older plants, while the areoles be- 
tween contract almost into tufts, especially toward the margin ; 
margin entire, fertile ; context firm, fleshy, white, changing slowly 
and slightly to pale-blue, taste sweet ; tubes plane in mass, some- 
what depressed at maturity, equaling the thickness of the context, 
greenish-white to avellaneous ; spores ellipsoid, smooth, deep 
ochraceous-brown, 14-16X7-8 /a; stipe somewhat ventricose, 
solid, white within, changing slightly to bluish beneath the cuticle. 
3-4 cm. long, 0.7-1 cm. thick, finely scabrous or scurfy, 
avellaneous-umbrinous to fulvous, paler above, distinctly pale 
bluish-green at the apex. 
This species occurs sparingly in woods, especially on roadside 
banks, from New York to the mountains of North Carolina and 
west to Kentucky. It may be readily recognized by the pale- 
bluish-green band at the apex of the stipe. 
