1'I.ASSll'h'ATlON OP AGARICS 



pale yellow. STEM lacking. SPORES elliptical, smooth, 1-6x3-4, 



pale yellow in mass. CYSTIDIA Done, ODOR and TASTE mild. 



Gregarious or subimbricate. <>n decaying Logs, etc., in coniferous 

 woods. 



Houghton, Munising, J'»;iy View. Jul) August, [nfrequent. 

 . Paler and with Less corrugated gills than the preceding. [1 

 saiil to be very variable in form and habit, in Europe it occurs 

 in dark places, in cellars, mines, etc, attached t<> Hi" timbers, it 

 appears to be much Less common in this country. 



Pholiota I i. 

 i Prom the i Lreek Pholis, .1 scale. | 



Ochre-brown or rusty Bpored. Stem continuous witli the pileus, 

 provided with a membranous annulus, which is formed from a 

 partial veil: do volva, hence n<> universal veil; ^ills admit- /.. . 

 ing emarginate or decurrenl by a tooth, sometimes adnezed. 



Putrescent, terrestrial or Lignicolous mushrooms, of great varia- 

 bility of types. They correspond to Armillaria of the white-spored 

 group, and Stropharia of the purple-brown-spored group. The Dear- 

 est genera are Flanimula and Cortinarius whose veils differ, when 

 present, in being cortinate. The Large, wood-inhabiting species 

 often densely caespitose. None are known to be poisonous, and 

 many are excellent when cooked. 



The PILEUS varies according to the section to which it helm,. 

 In one section it is often very scaly, in the others it is asually 

 glabrous. It may be dry or hygrophanous. The color is asually 

 whitish or dull yellowish in the tirst section. Those growing mi 

 wood are often very attractive, with bright yellow colors, in P. 

 aeruginosa tinged with dark green, and in others a watery brown. 

 The GILLS are attached t<» the stem, adnate, adnezed, <»r decurrenl 

 by a tooth; in all these cases, the gills m.i\ secede from the stem 

 during the expansion of the pileus. and thej Dearly always become 

 emarginate or sinuate ;it maturity. This separates them from the 

 genus Flanimula whose gills never becdme sinnate. The color 

 changes from the young condition i<> maturity and it is necessary 



in many cases to know the color of the young u'iH^ to identify the 

 species: this is usually white or yellow, but ;it Length chai 

 the color of the spores, which are either ochraceous, fusco 

 ferruginous. The STEM is fleshy or fibrous. ^<>lid or Btuffed, and 

 provided with a membranous annulus which is either I" ; 

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