Flesh is white. Gills broad, whitish, decurrent, and often
slightly connected by oblique branches. +Stem+ is generally short and
lateral. It grew in October. Professor Peck says that in edible
qualities it resembles the oyster mushroom, P. ostreatus.
MUSHROOMS WITH THE CAP BROWN AND VARIOUS SHADES OF BROWN.
+CORTINARIUS CINNAMOMEUS = cinnamon.+
+The Cinnamon-colored Cortinarius.+
+Cap+ a golden brown or bright cinnamon color, 1 1/2 to 4 inches broad,
umbonate, silky, shining, squamulose, with yellowish fibrils, and then
smooth. +Stem+ 2 inches long, stuffed and then hollow, thin, equal,
tapering toward the base, yellowish color, as also are the flesh and the
veil. +Gills+ adnate, broad, crowded, shining reddish-brown color. Our
specimen had beautiful reddish-colored gills, Var. semisanguineus
(Peck). It grows in woods from August to November.
+COLLYBIA ACERVATA = a heap.+
+The Tufted Collybia.+
The name of the species is derived from a Latin word meaning a heap,
so called from the habit of growth.
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