Mycological Bulletin No. 19

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Mycological Bulletin No. 19Author(s): W. A. KellermanSource: Mycological Bulletin, Vol. 2, No. 19 (Jul. 15, 1904), pp. 73-76Published by: Mycological Society of AmericaStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20520990 .

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Mycological Bulletin No. 19 W. A. Kellerman, Ph. D., Ohio State University

Columbu, Ohio. July 15, 1904

ACKNOWLEDGMENT.-We are indebted to Professor L. F. Hendersoni for the

use of the plate from which Fig. 68 is printed. This with other figures appear

in a Bulletin (No. 27) of the Idaho Experiment Station, on the 1ood values of

ftungii. Those interested in that phase of the subject will find in that Bulletin

a summary of our knowledge thereto pertaining. In this connection attention might be called to Professor Atkinson's instructive chapters (in Mushroonms Edible and Poisonous) on Selection and Preparation of Mushroois' for the

Table; Uses of Mushrooms; Cultivation of Mushroomis; Recipes for Cooking

Mushrooms; Chemistry and Toxicology of Mushrooms. THE GENUS HY-PnO-LO'-MA.-This is included in the sectioni of Browii

spored Agarics. the spores being purple brown. The veil when ruptured clings to the margin of the pileus so tllat rarely or never is there present, on the stem,

a ring or annulins. The genus is closely related to A-gar'-i-cuis and( Stro

_pha'-ri-a, hut in these genera an annulus is present. Several species of

H4y-p)ho-lo'-ma are comiimon and they are edible. Four species are illustrated

by half-tones and fully described in Atkinson's Mushrooins. Mellvaine

Fic. 67.-MA-RAS'-MI-Us RO'-TU-LA. This beautiful little Ma-ras'-mi-us grows on sticks and leaves and seenis to be a common species in our woods. The pileus is one-half inch or less in breadth, and white or whitislh in color. The stem or stipe is whitish above. Morgan describes the species as fol lows: Pileus menibranaceous. a little convex, umbilicate, plicate; stipe horny, hollow, shining, glabrous, blackish; lamella fewv, broad, distant. joined behind to a free collar, whitish. The cut above was made from a photograplh of specimens collected in a woods near Columbus.

University Bulletin. Series 8. No. 27. Entered as Becond Class Matter, Post-office at Columbus, 0.



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includes 14 species in One Thousand American Fungi, one species illinstrated

b)y a half-tone plate, and three species showin in a colored plate. We have showni. in the Mveological Bulletin, iy-p)ho-lo'-ma seb-lat-cr-'i'-ti-ua on

page 25, and Hy-pAo-lo'-aia lac-ry-i-ben'-dI on page ai.

RAVENEL'S PHAL-LOID.-On pag,e 71 a figure was given of Dic-ty-ol)h'-o ra ra-re-nel'- i-i, or in simple language. Ravenel's Phalloid; but space was want ing for an accounit of the specimnenl's fion which the photogral)h was made and reference to the interesting characters of this funguis. The fresh I

eggs" -such as shown in the left figure above- were sent in quIantity by Supt. M. E. Hard. of Chillicothe, and(I keepinir them moist in Sphagnum. the devel opment took place with considerable rapidity, as indicated in the successively developed fornis in the plate on page 71 The thick vol,ca rniptures at the apex with one or two wide clefts and the central column then elongates rapidly. The cap-shaped or bell-shaped pileus is covered with the spore beatiug layer which is called the gle'-bat.

In Ravenel's Phalloid the sut-face of the pileus is nmerely granular or minutely wrinkled after the gleba melts away, but in other species there is a

conspicuons reticulation of ridges and crests, remotely suggestive of the pitted cap of a Morel. The plant presented in longituidiinal section show's that the stemi is hollow, and this cavity extends quite to the apex, the per foration being conspicuous from above where it is s;urrotunded by a broad light-colored circular lip. The pitted or spongy chataeter of the tissue of the stein can be determined froml the figutre. It can be seen also that the cap or

pileus is attached onily near its apex. BIeDeath the cap is a veil-cha:aeter istiG of this genus.

Bolanists include the Phal-loids and their near melatives in the group called Phlal-lin-c'-ate. of which abouit 30 species have beell described. Most of the forms are fouind in the Tropics -especially in Auistralia; about 10 species are reported for North A mer ica.

The gronp contains the two orders. Clathl-ra'-ce-ae and Phal-la'-ce-ac the latter inieludes the Phal'-loids or Stink-hornis and they are enumerated

under 7 diff'erent genera. The species miost likely to be encountered are members of the genus Dic,-ty-oph '-o-ra (as shown in Fig. 65, alluded to in the account above) ancd Itho-y-phal'-les. The unbearably vile-smelling Stink horn, eonuninon in our region, is Ith-y-)phal'-hls ii-p)'-di-cus-.

THE IVORY HY-GROPH'-O-RUS.-This species. which we illustrate on the opposite page, is comimiiion in pine woods in Idaho according to the interest ing account br Professor L. F. Henderson. He says that it occurs in iIIm

mense quantities-tons uponi tons could be collected in the wooded hills of' Idaho fromii Septemiber to Decemiber-and although coated with a slimllv cov ering, causing it often to slip from the hands like an eel, when cleaned nicely and cooked into a, stew makes a delicate dish of oyster flavor-havilng a decidedly vegetable rather than meat flavor. The plants are f'rom one to four inches n-ide an(l three to six inches high. The entire plant is white and the gills are decurreiit. The pileus is riather thick, generally flat or convex, though in age it nav becomiie tilted upwards; it is always incurved along the edge when young.

Professoor Henderson says mn.aniy other species of this interesting genu,s are to lie fouind abundanitly in fir woods, or in forests of niiingled pine and fir, but he has reserved the discussion of these for his future Bulletins. It is supposed that all of the species are edible ; they present various shades of colors froml white, yellowish-white, yell ow, yellowish-red, to dull brownish or dirty olive. He says, besides, that they all agree in the following im portanit genieric characters:

The gills are rather distantt of a waxy consistency, broadeninig towards their attachmilenit to the cap; and the central portion of the gill, called the trhW-ma, is btut a conitiniuationi of the mlaterial of the piletis, so that whenl thev are puilled off frotm the cap thev each leave a projecting linle of the tinama behind themn oni the cap.

This genlus is closelv related to Can-tha-rel'-lts, bhut inl the latter the gills are blunt anid fom-ked.



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F1m. 68.-HY UROPH'-O-RUs H-BUR'-NK-1'8.-IvoaY HY-iROP4-o-ous.-Edible. Tile lialf-toiie is kindlv fuirnilshed( by Professor lIenderson, who first uised it to illuistrate a Blulletin (No. 27) published bv the Idaihlo Experimenit Station, atud referred to in the lirst paragraph of this ulnluber of the

Mycological Bulletin. The specimeus were collected itt Moscow, Idalho.



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Fia. 69.- PA'-NITS AN-GITS-TA'-TU35.- NARROW PA'-Nus. This is at tleshy-corisiceosis f'unguts more or less spatniate or flabellifoirm. It is miniiitely hairy anid of at dirty White or yellowish color. The stemi is ver-y short or ailtogethier atbsenit. The gills; are veryv uunueronis anid crowvded - they aire deecnrr-eut.

Te species is commion In the woods. Morgan saysti n .dabtsaetoln e pce flirst (1 imcovere-d by M1r. Lea. It wits described and named by' Ber-keley, a pioneer Eniglish nyOlgiSt.

Thie cntt waus niatde fromi at pliotograplh ot specimens collected .on at rotteni log nieali Colnumbus.

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