Toadstools, mushrooms, fungi, edible and poisonous; one thousand American fungi / How to select and cook the edible; how to distinguish and avoid the poisonous, with full botanic descriptions. Toadstool poisons and their treatment, instructions to students, recipes for cooking, etc., etc.

by Charles McIlvaine; Robert K. Macadam

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1. Hypholoma appendiculatum,	[363]	3. Hypholoma sublateritium,	[359]
2. Hypholoma perplexum,	[354]	4. Gomphidius rhodoxanthus,	[394]

HYPHOLO´MA.

Gr—a web; Gr—a fringe.

(Plate XCVIII.)

Hypholoma fascicularis.
Natural size.

Pileus more or less fleshy, margin at first incurved. Veil webby, adhering in fragments to the margin of the pileus, not forming a distinct ring on the stem. Stem fleshy, similar in substance to that of the pileus with which it is continuous. Gills attached to the stem, sometimes with a notch at the juncture (emarginate), occasionally separating and then appearing to be free.

Generally cespitose, mostly growing on wood above or under the ground.

Spores brownish-purple, sometimes intense-purple, almost black.

Corresponding to Tricholoma, Entoloma and Hebeloma.