The Higher Fungi of the Chicago Region (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 Excerpt: ...membranous, rugulose, floccose, soft, umbilicate then infundibuliform, remotely striate when moist, flocculose when dry. Lamellae strongly decurrent, distant, thick, whitish then flesh-color. Stem stuffed, slender, incurved, even, smooth, cinereous. Spores oval, pentangular, 10 /u. On mossy ground in moist woods, Glen Ellyn, June, 1905. The pileus is dark gray and sulcate-striate when moist, whitishgray and finely silky-striate when dry. The stem is thickened above, mouse-color and semi-pellucid when moist, grayish and opaque when dry, often with a tuft of white silky fibers at the base. Taste mild, mealy. Pileus 5 to 15 mm. broad; stem 15 to 25 mm. long, 1 to 2 mm. thick; spores rosy-pink, pentangular, 8 to 10 /j.., often with an oblique apiculus at one of the angles. E. pentagonospora Atk. (Journ. Myc. 8: 113) may perhaps be a synonym, the description agreeing well with the hygrophanous state of our plant. CLAUDOPUS. Pileus eccentric, lateral or resupinate; spores rosy or salmoncolored. Growing on wood, rarely on the ground. Pileus yellow C. nidulans. Pileus white C. variabilis. Pileus gray '... C. byssisedus. Claudopus nidulans Pers. (Plate VIII, Fig. 2.) Pileus sessile or rarely narrowed behind into a short, stem-like base, often imbricated, suborbicular, dimidiate or reniform, tomentose, somewhat strigose-hairy or squamulose-hairy toward the margin, yellow or buff color, the margin at first involute. Lamellae rather broad, moderately close, orange-yellow. On decaying trunks of Populus, woods, Glencoe. Autumn. The fresh plant has a strong, unpleasant odor. According to Prof. Morgan, this is the same as Panus dorsalis Bosc. Pileus 2.5 to 10 cm. broad, projecting 2.5 to 7.5 cm.; spores elliptical, slightly curved, 6 to 7.5 x 3 to 4 /. Glaudopus variabilis...