Some; Colorado Mushrooms 
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individuals growing near together, sometimes forming a large ring 
or circle. 
This fungus, while attractive in its large size and pleasing ap¬ 
pearance, has the reputation for making at least half of the num¬ 
ber of persons who eat it very sick for a time and should be avoided 
as dangerous. It is so unlike any other known mushroom which 
occurs in open ground in the color of its spores that it can be very 
easily shunned by taking care to determine this matter. 
Smooth Lepiota (Lepiota naucina) — Edible. 
Cap —Two to five inches broad, rounded, usually smooth and 
white, sometimes brownish and scaly, as in one of the specimens 
figured; flesh thick, white, or pinkish when old. 
Gills —Numerous and crowded, ‘ white, later pinkish or 
brownish. 
Spores —White, or pale pinkish in mass. 
Stem —Two to four inches tall, tapering upward from the 
somewhat swollen base; white or colored like the cap; may be read¬ 
ily separated from the cap by bending it to one side. 
Ring —Narrow, sometimes free on the stem. 
Occurs occasionally in groups in rich lawns and in the vicinity 
of trees or hedgerows where leaf mold has accumulated. 
This is one of the most desirable of the umbrella-shaped fungi 
and is equal in every way to the cultivated common mushroom. It 
No. Ifi. The smooth Lepiota (Lepiota naucina). Edible. 
