Pileus usually not over 1.5 in. across. Often in plenty. Its substance does not cook away as with C. micaceus. It amply repays gathering, being highly flavored.
Bolbitius nobilis.
About two-thirds natural size.
B. no´bilis Pk.—noble. Pileus thin, fleshy on the disk, ovate then bell-shaped, smooth, plicate-striate, pale-yellow, the disk tinged with red, the margin at length recurved and splitting. Gills subdistant, tapering outwardly, attached, the alternate ones more narrow, pale-yellow with a darker edge. Stem long, equal, smooth, striate at the top, hollow, white.
Plant cespitose, 3–5 in. high. Pileus 1 in. broad. Stem 1 line thick. Ground in woods. Greig. September.
A fine large species, but probably rare. Peck, 24th Rep. N.Y. State Bot.
I have not seen this species. Figure after Professor Peck.
CREPIDO´TUS Fr.
Gr—a slipper.