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This family has about the same character as the Amanita 

 famih', with this difference : the scales, if any, are concrete 

 with the epidermis of the cap, and is without a universal wrapper 

 or volva, but has a veil forming an annulus. 



A very interesting family. The parasol mushroom is the 

 type, a delicious and wholesome fungi. 



T,. procerus. Scop. Tall Mushroom. 



Pileus, four to eight inches broad, ovate or nearly cylin- 

 drical, campanulate, then flattened, with a prominent umbo 

 fuscous or fawn color ; cuticle is broken up into broad, thick, 

 adherent scales, white beneath the scales ; flesh white, soft, 

 cottony, margin entire. 



Gills, free, with a collar, crowded ventricose, soft, white. 



Stem, cylindrical, with the exception of the bulbous base. 

 Spotted with darker scales, deeply sunk into the pileus, hollow, 

 stuffed with a cottony fibre. 



Ring", distinct from the stem, movable up and down the 

 stem, persistent. Easily recognized when once seen. 



Parasol mushroom, from its shape, probably from the ring on the stipe 

 being movable like that of an umbrella stick. 



This is one of the few esculent mushrooms ; it is perfectly safe and deli- 

 cious, and easil}' identified by the adherent warts and movable ring c n 

 the stem, texture soft and spongy. 



Common in Spring Creek woods, near Trexlertown. It grows single, 

 never caespitose. Common along roadsides throughout the Valley. 



ly. naucinus. Kr. 



Pileus, white, one to two inches broad, fleshy, soft, gibbons, 

 or umbonate ; the thin cuticle breaks up into granules. 



Gills, free, soft, white, ventricose. 



Stem, stuffed, at length hollow, attenuated upwards from 

 the thickened base, fibrillose, pure white. 



