PLUTKUS. 55 



Genus XL PI^UTE^US. Fr. 



Ros3'-spored, without a volva or ring. Gills free from the 

 stem, white at first, then flesh color. Pluteus would agree with 

 Lepiota, if we consider the prunosity as a universal veil. 



P. cervinus. Schaeff. Fawn-colored Pluteus. 



Pileus, three inches or more, campanulate, expanded, 

 viscid in wet weather, smooth, except a few dark fibrils when 

 young, margin entire, flesh soft and white. 



Gills, free, separate from the stem, ventricose, crenulate, 

 white at first, then flesh color. 



Stem, solid, firm, white, spread over with a few dark fibrils, 

 generally crooked. 



Named from cervus, a deer. The top of pileus is colored like a young 

 deer. 



This is quite common in our vicinity, growing on old stumps, fence 

 rails, etc. The flesh is pure white, gills also white at first, but soon 

 becoming salmon color from the shedding of spores. It can be found in 

 early summer until late in autumn. 



P. granulans. Pk. 



Pileus, convex, then expanded, subumbonate, rugose- 

 v/rinkled, sprinkled with minute blackish granules, varying in 

 color from yellow to brown. 



Gills, rather broad, close, ventricose, free, whitish, then 

 flesh-colored. 



Stem, equal, solid, pallid, or brown, usually paler at the 

 top, velvety with a shorter close plush. 



Spores, subglobose, about .0002 inch in diameter. 



Plant two to three inches high, pileus one to two inches 

 broad, stem one to two lines thick. — Peck' s Reports. 



