CLASSIFICATION OP AGARICS 24fl 



oval or short ventricose, obtuse a1 apex, aboul 15x24 micr., hya- 

 line. 



Caespitose on very decayed debris aboul stumps and roots in 

 foresl of hemlock, maple, etc. Bay View. September. Rare. 



This has very much the stature of Cooke's figure of Pholiota radi- 

 cosa. illl., PI. ^'.tili and grows in similar places, but the pileus of 

 our plants lias a glabrous, viscid pellicle, and the spores arc purple 

 tinged. The odor was not noted. The pool like prolongation pushes 

 deep down into the debris and the mycelium was attached to dead 

 roots. This agrees so well with Blassee's description thai I have 

 ventured to refer it thither, in spin- of its larger size and more 

 scaly stem. 



238. Stropharia depilata Fr. 



Hymen. Europ., L874. 



Illustrations: Barper, Trans. Wis. Acad. Scl, Vol. 16, PI. 62 

 and 63, L913. 



PILEUS 4-1- cm. broad, firm, convex to plane or broadly umbo- 

 nate, obtuse, glabrous, viscid, light cinnamon-drab (Ridg.) when 

 young and with a smoky tinge, at length dark olive-buff or pinkish- 

 buff (Eidg.), even on the decurved margin which is sometimes ap- 

 pendiculate when young. FLESB whitish, thick except the thin 

 margin. GILLS adnate, often subdecurrent and running down the 

 stem in lines, close to crowded, broad, pallid a1 first, soon pah 

 purple-drab (Ridg.) or ashy, al length purplish-black. STEM 6-12 

 cm. long, 8-15 mm. thick, subequal or subventricose, stuffed, whitish 

 within and without, becoming yellowish-tinged, clotlied below an- 

 nulus by subsquarrose, lacerate, fibrillose or floccose whitish or 

 creamy-yellow scales, apex glabrescent, often deeply Immersed at 

 base. ANNULUS distant, membranous, persistent, at first white. 

 firm and erect, then deflected and clove-brown (Ridg.). SPORES 

 elliptical, smooth, 9-12x5-6.5 micr., dark-gray with tint of purple 

 under microscope. CYSTIDIA none. Edge of gills with sterile 

 cells, ODOR none. TASTE tardily disagreeable. 



Solitary or subgregarious, randy subcaespitose ; among debris or 

 about logs and stumps in mixed woods of balsam, spruce, birch, 

 etc. Northern Michigan. Frequent locally. September-October. 



The large size, scaly stem and slate-gray gills are the striking 

 characteristics of this species. Barper reports it from Neebish 

 Island. It is also an inhabitant of the Adirondack Mountains, 



