The Agaricaceae of Michigan, Issue 5

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W.H. Crawford, state printers, 1918 - Agaricaceae
 

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Page 844 - Observations on recent cases of mushroom poisoning in the District of Columbia: Circ.
Page 190 - STEM 10-15 cm. high, slightly tapering upward, fragile, hollow, white, the lower half clothed with loose cottony flocci which rub off easily, upper half smooth or slightly farinaceous.
Page 138 - ... or olive-green with a brown or blackish center, or sometimes purplish with a greenish center. FLESH white. GILLS narrowed toward the stem, subdistant, equal, rounded behind and nearly free, ventricose, whitish becoming pale yellow. STEM 1-2.5 cm. long, equal or tapering upward, stuffed or hollow, white. SPORES bright yellowish-ochraceous, subglobose, 8-10 micr. TASTE mild.
Page 453 - Pileus fleshy, convex or nearly plane, sometimes gibbous or broadly umbonate, rarely centrally depressed, glabrous, grayish or alutaceous with an ochraceous tint ; lamellae close, broad, sinuate, adnexed, whitish becoming brownish ochraceous ; stem equal, flexuous, silky fibrillose, stuffed or hollow above, solid toward the base, whitish ; spores subellipsoid, IO-I2 x 5-6 /*. Pileus 2.5-7.5 cm broad; stem 2.5-8 cm long, 2-6 mm thick.
Page 216 - ... the center, dry, silky fibrillose or fibrillosesquamulose, grayish brown, darker or brown in the center, often with yellowish or ferruginous stains, flesh white or whitish, not changing color where wounded, taste and odor almond; lamellae thin, close, free, grayish, soon pinkish, finally brown; stem equal or slightly tapering upward, sometimes bulbous, stuffed or hollow, slightly fibrillose, white, the annulus slight, often evanescent ; spores broadly elliptic or subglobose, .0002 of an inch...
Page 275 - Rcp't 28. Bot. ed. p. 49. Pileus thin, hemispheric or convex, dry, densely coated with small erect separable pyramidal or spinelike scales, tawny brown ; lamellae broad, close, adnexed, pallid becoming cinnamon brown ; stem equal, stuffed or hollow, densely squamulose below the slight annulus, often curved, colored like the pileus; spores naviculoid, .ooo3-.ooo35 of an inch long, .oooi6-.ooo2 broad. Pileus 6-12 lines broad; stem 6-12 lines long, i line thick. Dead and decaying trunks of deciduous...
Page 371 - ... this species except that they had more slender stems than the type. As Peck has already pointed out, the species reminds one of an Inocybe and the peculiar oblong spores are further evidence of such a position for it. It seems to be rare and needs more study. 406., Cortinarius croceofolius Pk.
Page 379 - GILLS emarginate with tooth, very broad, plane then ventricose, subdistant, thick, at first lavender, soon pale-tan to cinnamon, edge subserratulate, concolor. STEM 6-10 cm. long, (rarely 10-13 cm.), 10-20 mm. thick, subequal, usually thickened below, sometimes narrowed below or curved, always stout, solid, lavender above the woven, sordid white universal veil which at first covers the lower part as a sheath, but soon breaks up so as to leave a band-like annulns half-way or lower on the stem, or...
Page 138 - Its place of growth is only under balsam fir. It has been reported from Michigan but the description given is that of Peck. The important characters seem to be the bright yellow tinged spores. It is separable from R. puellaris, "by the viscid cap, the gills rather widely separated from each other and nearly free, the stem never yellowish nor becoming yellow where wounded, and the spores having an ochraceous hue.
Page 731 - EDIBLE FUNGI Collybia acervata Fr. TUFTED COLLYBIA PLATE 84, FIG. 8-13 Pileus slightly fleshy, convex becoming expanded or nearly plane, glabrous, hygrophanous, pale tan color or incarnate red and sometimes obscurely striatulate on the margin when moist, whitish after the escape of the moisture; lamellae narrow, thin, close, rounded behind, slightly adnexed or free, whitish; stem equal, hollow, glabrous, usually white tomentose at the base, reddish brown or purplish brown ; spores white, elliptic,...

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