CLASSIFICATION ()!■' AGARICS 243 



231 Psalliota haemorrhodaria IV. Edible) 

 Hymen. Kurop., Ins."). 



Illustrations : ( "ooke, III., PL 531. 



Gillet, Champignons de Prance, No. -577 (as Pratella). 

 N. V. State .Mus. Rep. 54, PL 75, L901. 



PILEUS 5-10 (in. broad, at first subglobose to subovate then 

 campanulate-expanded, aearlj plane, covered by rather dei 

 fibrillose, brownish-gray, appressed scales, sometimes glabrous 

 toward margin and paler, margin subpersistently Incurved. 

 FLESH while turning pink to blood-red when broken, thick '>n 



disk, thin on margin. GILLS free, i lerately broad, crowded, 



while at first, then rosy-flesh-color, finally dark brown. STEM 

 5-10 cm. long, 8-15 nun. thick, subequal, rarely bulbous, stuffed then 

 hollow, floccose-fibrillose, glabrescent, white or pallid, darker in 

 age. ANNULUS large, pendulous, persistent, superior, simple, 

 white., it length colored hy spores. SPORES 6-7x I micr., elliptical, 

 purplish-brown, smooth. STEE I LE CELLS on edge <>f ^ills. clavate, 

 enlarged-rounded above. ODOB and TASTE agreeable. 



Caespitose or scattered, on the ground or about the base of trees 

 in low places in mixed woods, usually near birch and maple trees. 

 Marquette, New Richmond. August-October. [nfrequenl in the 

 coniferous regions of the state. 



Easily known by the change of the flesh to red, which culm- fresh 

 plants immediately show when broken. This character is said to 

 be found also in the seashore mushroom. /'. halophUa Pk. which 

 has a solid stem and has not been round inland. Peck says its 

 flavor when cooked is similar to P. cam /» '8% ris } and gives to the milk 

 in which ii is slewed a brownish color. Ricken considers ii a 



mere form of P. silvatica, but describes the latter differently from 



most authors. It is certainly (list inci . 



232. Psalliota micromegetha Pk. (Edible 



N. V. state .Mus. Rep. 54, L901. iAs Vgaricus pusillus). 



Illustration: X. V. state .Mus. Hull. in;. Pi. 107, Pig. l •;. L907. 



"PILEUS 2-7 cm. broad, fragile, convex becoming plane, some 

 times subdepressed in center, dry. silky-fibrillose or fif>rilh><i scaly, 

 grayish-brown "/• brown in center, often with yellowish or ferrugi- 



