WlilTE-SPORED AGARICS. 



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plants are 6-8 cm. high, the cap 4-7 cm. hruaJ, and the stem 6-8 

 mm. in thickness. It occurs in woods. It is known by its viscid 

 pileus, the orange brown or ochraceous rufus color of the pileus and 

 stem, and the color of the stem being confined to the superficial layer, 

 which becomes torn into concentric floccose scales, forming numerous 

 minute tloccose irregular rings of color around the stem. 



Tile pileus is conve.x to expanded, with an umbo, and the edge 

 inrolled, tleshw thin, viscid, ochraceous rufus (in specimens collected 



Figure .S(). — Annillaria aurantia Schaeff. ( = Tricholonia peckii Howe). Cap 

 orange-brown or ochraceous rufus, viscid ; floccose scales on stem same 

 color (natural size). Copyright 1900. 



by myself), darker on the umbo, and minutely scaly from tufts of 

 hairs, and the viscid cuticle easily peeling off. The gills are narrow, 

 crowded, slightly adne.xed, or many free, white, becoming brown dis- 

 colored where bruised, and in drying brownish or rufus. The spores 

 are minute, globose to ovoid, or rarels' sub-elliptical when a little 

 longer, with a prominent oil globule usuallv, 3-3.5 .\ V5 /', some- 

 times a little longer when the elliptical forms are presented. The 

 stem is straight or ascending, even, very floccose scaly as the pileus 

 is unrolled from it, scales same color as the pileus, the scales running 



