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the stem. In Ihr shaggy-mane the vt-il liors not form a thin, l-x- 

 panded curtain. It is really an annular outer layt-r of the button 

 lying between the margin of the cap and the base of the stem. It 

 becomes frro from the stem. As the stem elongates more rapidly 

 than the cap, the lattir is lifted up awav from the base of the stem. 



Sometimes the free 

 collar around the 

 still l(n)sely ac 

 superficial layer of 

 or it remains 

 more or less ' 

 to the margin 

 of the pileus 



ring is left as a 

 base of the stem, 

 herent to the 

 the same, 

 for a time 

 adhere nt 



as shown in the plant at 

 It is often lifted higher 

 becomes free from the 

 dangling somewhere on 

 break and fall down on 

 stances it may remain 

 the margin of the pileus 

 as the pileus in age ex- 

 such cases one often 

 to discover it clinging 

 the cap. It is interest- 

 of the plants at this 

 can be made by split- 

 lengthwise through the 

 knife, as shown in Fig. 

 at the right hand, the 

 plainly seen running 

 stem. The gills form 

 plant, for they are very 



the left hand in Fig. 33. 



\ up on the stem before it 



' cap, and is then left 



the stem, or it may 



tlie sod. In other in- 



luite firmly adherent to 



^o that it breaks apart 



-lands somewhat. In 



searches for some time 



as a sterile margin of 



ing to observe a section 



stage. These sections 



ting the pileus and stem 



middle line with a sharp 



,31:. Here, in the plant 



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comatus. later stage of " COrd " of mvcelium is 

 diliquescence, pileus ti-jrou^'h tlie hollow 



becoming more ex 



panded (natural size), a large portion of the 

 broad and lie closely 

 packed side by side. They are nowhere attached to the stem, but 

 at the upper end round off to the cap, leaving a well defined space 

 between their ends and the stem. The cap, while it is rather thick 

 at the center, i. e., where it joins the stem, becomes comparatively 

 thin where it spreads out over the gills. At this age of the plant 



