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NAUCORIA
TUBARIA
Naucoria includes a group of small, brown-spored species that are not
well known. The spores are ochre-brown to rusty brown. The stipe is subcartilaginous
and there is no annulus. They grow either on the ground or on wood,
occasionally on dung. Because of their small size they are of no value as edible
mushrooms and not much is known about their edibihty. Only one rather common
species is described here.
NAUCORIA SEMIORBICULARIS (Bull.) Fr. Edible
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piLEUS 54-1 in. broad, hemispherical to convex, smooth, glabrous, viscid
when moist, dull yellowish varying to tan or tinged reddish brown, unicolorous
or darker on the disk, margin even, flesh thin, paUid. lamellae adnate,
broad, close, paUid, then dull brown from the spores, edges paUid. stipe 1-21/2
in. long, up to i/g in. thick, subequal or slightly thickened at the base, stuffed,
glabrous to minutely fibrillose, concolorous or paler than the pileus. spores
smooth, thick-walled, ovoid, inequilateral in one view, dull brown (10.5)
11-13.5 (15) X 7.5-8 {9) IX.
In groups on the ground in grassy places, common. May-Sept.
This species is common on lawns and grassy places, appearing after rains
throughout most of the season. The small size, yellowish tan color, brown
spores and lack of an annulus are its distinguishing characters.
TUBARIA
Tubaria is a small genus of poorly known species. They are small brownspored
forms with decurrent lamellae and fragile, cartilaginous stipes. The
species are mostly rather rare, and are of no interest to those collecting mushrooms
for food.
One species is included here because it is one of the earliest mushrooms to
appear in the spring and for that reason may attract attention.
TUBARIA FURFURACEA (Pers. ex Fr.) Gill.
pileus %-! in. broad, occasionally larger, fleshy, convex to plane or
slightly depressed, cinnamon-brown, hygrophanous, fading to buff or pinkish
buff, long-striate on the margin when moist, sometimes with whitish patches
from the veil, appressed-fibrillose to glabrous on the disk, flesh thin, watery
brownish, no odor, taste mild, lamellae close to subdistant, broad, adnate to
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