... reward us during our strolls, but there are plants to be found and gathered, and when these fail us, then the bright-hued mushrooms may arrest our attention. ...
... felt, from which the fruit arises at its extreme edge the soil in the inner part of the disc is exhausted, and the spawn dies or becomes effete ...
... grows the stem lengthens, the cap expands and bursts the veil that surrounds it, and gradually gains its perfect shape. Every mushroom has a spore-bearing ...
... ground. They soon decay. The cap is sticky or watery, the gills often branched. It has a peculiarity in the fact that the hymenial cells, or the layer ...
... It has two distinctive features: one, that the gills cohere at first, and are not separated when young and the other, that they dissolve into an ...
... or fibrils, is equally fleshy and dry. The stem is fleshy and rather bulbous. 4. Dermocybe = skin and head. The cap and stem are both thinner ...
... round its head supported on an erect, white stem. He will probably find it on a grassy hillside or along a running brook under some forest trees. ...
... above there are certain genera not elsewhere mentioned in this book. He will understand that it is inadvisable in a short primer to allude to all ...
... (Edible.). +HYPHOLOMA FASCICULARE = a small bundle.+ +The Tufted Hypholoma.+. +Cap+ a beautiful reddish color, like a peach the disc darker, ...
... +Stem+ 1 to 2 inches long, 4 to 6 lines thick. Some were united in tufts (cspitose), others were gregarious (in groups) or solitary. They grew ...
... This is said to be rather rare. We found it twice in August growing solitary on the roadside in the grass. It was large-sized, measuring 7 inches ...
... a clear white, with sometimes a brownish tint on the disc, 2 to 4 inches broad, smooth. +Stem+ 1 to 3 inches long, to 1/3 inch thick, growing ...
... a Latin word meaning a heap, so called from the habit of growth. (Stevenson.) +Cap+ tan brown color, 2 to 3 inches broad, flesh color when moist, whitish ...
... layer, called the pellicle or cuticle, both terms having the same meaning. +BOLETUS AFFINIS = related.+ +The Related Boletus.+. +Cap+ reddish-brown, ...
... there may be a short stem, which is lateral. They grow in clusters, all fastened together and one above the other, and of all sizes. We saw this fungus ...
... earth star is from 2 to 3 inches wide. It is sessile, of a brownish color, and changes its form accordingly as the weather is moist or dry, hence the ...
... milky and juice watery he will choose the second one, which is followed by the number 3. Then follows, stem central or nearly so this agrees with ...
... 143. Marasmius. The fairy ring mushroom, M. oreades. 99 Morchella. The edible Morel, M. esculenta. 146. Paxillus. The thin stemmed Paxillus, ...
... VIZ.:. Table I. White spores. Table II. Red and pink spores. Table III. Ochraceous spores. Table IV. Dark purple and black spores. NOTE. In using ...
... 3: Wet places in woods.] [Footnote 4. On or close to stumps.] [Footnote 5: On rotten wood.] [Footnote 6: Almost free.] [Footnote 7: Often fibrillose ...