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Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Banta, Nathaniel Moore, 1867- Schneider, Albert, 1863- Higley, William Kerr, 1860-1908 Abbott, Gerard Alan
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: Chicago, American Audobon association
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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h yellow. On the stem there is a sort of ring orcollar which is whitish or yellowish in color and of a thintexture. The lower part of the hollow or stuffed stem swellsout and is distinctly bulbous at the bottom, and about thebase there is a sort of cup or socket from which the stemrises. Above it, the stem is clothed with whitish or yellow-ish fragments of like texture to the ring. Sometimes thesefragments are almost woolly and extend upwards for somedistance. The flesh of this mushroom is white, firm, and very invit-ing. The gills are rounded at the edge and at the stem.The odor is pleasant and the spores are snowy-white. Alto-gether, there is nothing to warn the rash experimenter thatit is not as good as it looks. You will find these decorativemushrooms in field as well as in woods; long ranks of themfile away through the thin grass. Also one may see themstanding in all their glowing color in evergreen woods, thefatal poison cup hidden by the deep green moss. Elizabeth W. Woodworth.
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POLYSTICTUS. (Polystictus cinnabarinus). i Life-size. COPYRIGHT 1904 BV MFORO, CHICAGO MUSHROOMS 193 THE CINNABAR FUNGUS* The fungus which we illustrate is not uncommon ondecaying portions of oak, basswood, cherry, and other treesof the woods of many localities. It was given its specificname because of its brilliant cinnabar color, by which it maybe recognized at quite a distance. Dr. W. S. Moffatt saysthat over one hundred specimens were found growing on alog in the woods not far from Chicago. This species belongs to a large and interesting group ofthe fungi family. Polyporacece include fleshy, leather)-, orwoody forms. Dr. Charles Mcllvaine says: Within thislarge family are found edible species. In the woody speciesthe razor-strop man finds material for his strops; the sur-geon, styptics; the peasant, punk to catch sparks from hisflint, and the Fourth of July urchin, a fire-holder to lighthis pj^rotechnics. The Chinese have placed some species intheir fathomless materia medica, whil

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