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626 256.Pratel. 11. HYMENOTHECE^. PLcell.aph.
C. Pratellide^. Volva ; siem central ; collar distinct
or 0; cap orbicular, fleshy or membranaceous; texture
fibrous ; hymenium lamellar ; gills separable from the cap,
becoming black, watery or powdery; thecce. single, in pairs
or four together.
XIV. 256. PRATELLA. Persoon. Mushroom..
Stem collared ; collar distinct ; cap thick, fleshy, smooth,
persistent; gills clouded becoming black, or uniform
watery becoming darker; sporidia single, scattered. Flesh
wholesome.
a. Cap fleshy ; stem with a collar.
1. Pratella edulis. Eatable mushroom.
Thalli gregarious, large ; stem long, bulbous ; collar manifest;
cap snow-white, smooth, or very slightly scaly;
gills red.
Fungus campestre albus superne, inferne rubens, Rail Syn. 2, 1.
Fungus minor pileolo lato, superne candido, lamelHs subtus creberrimis
pallide rubeutibus seu incarnati coloris. Rati Syn. 3,8.
Agaricus edulis, Bull. Herb. 314 ; Persoon Syn. 418.
Agaricus arvensis, Schceff. Fung. 310.
Mushroom.
In parks and pastures, also cultivated.
Flesh of the cap delicately flavoured ; used in cookery,
either eaten by itself, or dried and powdered as a sauce.
2. Pratella campestris. Field mushroom.
S/ew short; coZZor incomplete ; cap fleshy, flattish, with
red scales; gills reddish-brown.
Agaricus campestris, Lin, S, P. 1614; SchcEff. Fung. 33; Withering
Arr. 4, 260, var. 2 ; Persoon Syn. 418.
In fields and hilly pastures.
/3. vaporaria. Thalhis large; stem tuberous, scaly; cap
convex, hairy or scaly, reddish-brown; gills brown.
On hot-beds ; also cultivated.
Cap very broad, sometimes 9 inches or more across.
3. Pratella cEruginosa. Coppery mushroom.
Stem scaly ; cottar fugacious ; cap fleshy, glutinous, coppery
; when dry yellowish ; gills flat, annexed, purple variegated
with brown.