The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise / Its Habitat and its Time of Growth

by Miron Elisha Hard

The stem is stuffed, firm, slender, smooth, pubescent at the base.

The spores are elliptical, 4–6×3–4µ.

These are small, very regular, and inodorous plants. They are found in open fields in the grass about elm stumps. July to September. They are edible and cook readily.

Clitocybe metachroa. Fr.

The Obconic Clitocybe. Edible.

Figure 70.—Clitocybe metachroa. Caps dark gray. Gills pale gray.

Metachroa means changing color.

The pileus is one to two and a half inches broad, somewhat fleshy, convex, then plane, depressed, smooth, hygrophanous, brownish-gray, then livid, growing pale.