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grows in fields and woods and is known as one of our most 
palatable mushrooms. This beautiful plant, as well as the little 
mitrula (Mitral a vitellina var irregularis), which is found in 
moss along roadsides and in evergreen woods, were very abundant 
during the months of September and early in October. The 
latter plant, about the size of a lady’s thumb, or less, is of a 
rich yellow color and is of a very attractive appearance as it 
rises from the green mosses amid fir and spruce trees. Eaten 
raw or cooked, its pleasant nutlike flavor makes it delicious as 
a salad during the autumn months until heavy frosts render it 
insipid. 
Other noteworthy forms, not so grateful to the taste as the 
above, were Cantharellus umbonatus, a beautiful little plant 
having a steel-blue cap with a conical boss rising from the centre, 
the puff-balls, clavarias, and a few others not so delicately flavored 
but fairly good eating, on a pinch. If people, both in country 
and city, would take the trouble to become acquainted with 
about a dozen species of our edible mushrooms, and learn how 
to serve them up as palatable dishes, there would be wholesome 
dainties added to the tables of many households. 
The writer is indebted to Mr. C. G. Lloyd, of Cincinnati, 
for his kindly courtesy and assistance in determining many of 
the species found in the following list. 
Additions to Previous Lists. 
Agaricus diminutivus Peck. Small; Pileus depressed; reddish. 
Tricholoma decorosum Peck. Covered with brown tomentose scales. 
Clitocybe ochrapurpureum Berk. With purple gills. 
Collybia dryophila Bull. Pileus grey or tan-colored. 
Hygrophorus conicus Fr. 
Hygrophorus chlorophanus Fr. 
Lactarius turpis Fr. Gills crowded, forked; milk acrid. 
Lactarius flexuosus Fr. 
Russula pectinata Fr. Pileus toast-brown. 
Russula puellaris Fr var intensior Cooke. Centre of pileus black. 
Russula furcata Fr. Pileus green. 
Russula depallens Pers. Pileus pallid brown. 
Entoloma rhodopolium Fr. Pileus grayish, shining. 
Stropharia semiglobata Batsch. 
Boletus elbensis Peck. Pileus brown, viscid. 
Polyporus adustus Fr. Pileus smoky-black on the margin. 
Hydnum caput-ursi Fr. Spines nearly one inch long. A beautiful plant- 
Stereum tabascinum Fr. 
