Eccilia carneo-grisea.
Natural size.
Eccilia atropuncta.
E. car´neo-gri´sea B. and Br.—caro, flesh; griseus, gray. Pileus about 1 in. broad, gray flesh-color, umbilicate, striate, delicately dotted, margin slightly glittering with dark particles. Stem about 1½ in. long, slender, fibrous-hollow upward, wavy, of the same color as the pileus, shining, smooth, white-downy at the base. Gills adnato-decurrent, somewhat undulated, distant, rosy, the irregular margin darker. Stevenson.
Spores irregularly oblong, rough, 7×5µ Massee.
Nova Scotia, Dr. Somers.
New Jersey, E.B. Sterling, August, 1897; Eagle’s Mere, Pa., common under pines, McIlvaine.
This neat little species is sweet and pleasant raw, and when cooked makes an agreeable dish. European authorities give the taste as unpleasant, but there is nothing of the sort about the American representative.
CLAU´DOPUS Smith.
Claudus—lame; pous—a foot.