Agaricacese 



. web-like, appendiculate (depending from the margin of the' pileus), 

 white, at length becoming dingy-brown. Gills rounded-adnexed, then 

 separating, crowded, violaceous then brownish-cinnamon, the edge at 

 first whitish. 



Readily distinguished from neighboring species by the gills being at 

 first beautifully dark violaceous, never flesh-colored. Densely cespitose, 

 fragile, very hygrophanous. Stevenson. 



Spores elliptical, 8x4^ Massee. 



Edible, often used in catsup. Cooke. 



A species variable in color with the weather. Its gills are cream- 

 colored at first, then purplish, then very dark. After rain the fragile 

 cap often turns up at the margin and splits. 



It differs somewhat in texture from other Hypholomas, being more 

 delicate in texture and substance. It is excellent. 



H. Sllba'quilum Banning. aquilus, brownish, tawny. Pileus brown, 

 convex, smooth, hygrophanous, often shaded into ocher at margin, veil 

 delicate, silk-like, encircling and covering the marginal extremities of 

 the lamellae but forming no ring on the stem. Flesh white, turning 

 umber when cut. Lamellae adnexed or nearly free, close, forked, um- 

 i>er. Stem cespitose, regular, hollow, silky, white, 2-3 in. long. 



Spores brown, 4x5 p. Banning MS. 



Druid Hill Park, Baltimore, Miss Banning; decaying wood, Adiron- 

 dack mountains. August and September. New York. Peck, 45th 

 Rep. N. Y. State Bot. 



H. subaquilum is closely allied to H. appendiculatum, but is dis- 

 tinguished by its darker colored cap and gills. 



Its edible qualities are the same. It is among the best. 



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