Illustrations and Descriptions of Lesser Known Fungi (1798) - Page 19

Location.

It occurs here and there in marshy places among Sphagna peat mosses.

Description.

The stipe is four inches long, barely one line approx. 2 mm wide, putting forth fibrils or rootlets at the base; otherwise, it is very smooth, slightly reddish below, and concolorous of the same color with the pileus above.

The lamellae are somewhat wide, entirely attached to the stipe, first watery-yellow, and in well-matured specimens they become darker due to the spores, which appear as shiny dots across the entire surface under a lens.

The pileus is submembranous somewhat thin and skin-like, translucent on one side, striated at the margin, smooth at the apex, and obtuse.

Illustration.

In Table I, Figure 4, this fungus is shown in its natural size and cut perpendicularly.

5. AGARICUS RUFIPES Red-stemmed Agaric.

Difference.

A Gregarious growing in groups, small, with a subcarnose-membranous somewhat fleshy and thin pileus that is subtomentose slightly downy, obtusely umbonate, and reddish; lamellae that are subadnexed and olivaceous-pale; and a subfistulose somewhat hollow stipe, concolorous with the pileus and white-villous at the base.

Location.

In autumn, it is observed here and there on trunks.