The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Part 120

Peck's Reports of New York.

Kellerman's Mycological Bulletins.

Kauffman's Genus Cortinarius.

Longyear's Michigan Mushrooms.

Cooke's British Fungi.

Minnesota Plant Diseases--Freeman.

CORRECTIONS.

c.l.i.tocybe metachroa, page 95.

Boletus parvus, page 361.

Polyporus Berkeleyi, page 392.

Tricholoma resplendens, page 600. This page of the ma.n.u.script was used in making the sample pages and for some reason was not replaced, which will account for its coming out of order.

_Tricholoma resplendens. Fr._

THE s.h.i.+NING TRICHOLOMA. EDIBLE.

[Ill.u.s.tration: Figure 504.--Tricholoma resplendens. Entire plant white.]

Resplendens means s.h.i.+ning brightly.

The pileus is fleshy, convex, then nearly plane, even, bare, viscid, white, sometimes hyaline-spotted or yellowish on the disk, s.h.i.+ning when dry, margin straight. Flesh white, taste mild, odor pleasant.

The gills are nearly free when young, then emarginate, somewhat crowded, rather thick, entire, white.

The stem is solid, bare, subbulbose, even, white, dry. The spores are 84.

The caps are two to four inches broad; the stem is two to four inches long.--_Peck._

This is a beautiful plant, entirely white, smell and taste pleasant, and found in Poke Hollow and in the woods along Ralston's Run, near Chillicothe.

This plant is found very generally over the United States.

INDEX TO GENERA.

Agaricus, 307

Amanita, 20

Amanitopsis, 43

Anellaria, 345

Armillaria, 56

Bolbitius, 346

Boletinus, 381

Boletus, 350

Bovista, 550

Bovistella, 552

Bulgaria, 516

Calvatia, 531

Calostoma, 562

Calocera, 474

Catastoma, 558

Cantharellus, 198

Chlorosplenium, 515

Claudopus, 256

Clavaria, 461

Claviceps, 573

c.l.i.tocybe, 88

c.l.i.topilus, 247

Collybia, 107