Lu´brici. Pileus viscid, etc.
F. edu´lis Pk.—eatable. Pileus fleshy, convex, obtuse, glabrous, moist, brown, grayish-brown or yellowish-brown, sometimes rimose. Flesh whitish. Lamellæ rather broad, close, decurrent, bright tan color, becoming brownish-rusty. Stems cespitose, equal, stuffed or hollow, brown. Spores subelliptical, 13×5–6µ.
Pileus 2–3 in. broad. Stem 2–3 in. long, 3–6 lines thick.
Grassy ground, along pavements, in gutters and by the side of wooden frames of hotbeds. Haddonfield, N.J. October. C. McIlvaine.
The collector of this species informs me that the flavor of the fresh plant is slightly bitter, but that this disappears in cooking and the fungus furnishes a very good and tender article of food. Successive crops continued to appear for a month. In the dried specimens the stem is striate. Peck, Bull. Torr. Bot. Club, Vol. 24, No. 3.
This new species appears annually in the same place. I have not found it elsewhere. It is meaty and excellent.
Udi. Pileus smooth, not viscid; veil fragmentary, etc.
Flammula alnicola.
Two-thirds natural size.