CLASSIFICATION' OF AGARICS 



Section I. Humigeni. Terrestrial, rarelj caespitose, not aygro- 

 phanous, doI attached to mosses, cystidia presenl or absent 



283. Pholiota praecoxl'r. (Edible 



Syst. Myc, 1821. i.\s P8alliota praecoa.) 



Illustrations: Atkinson. Mushrooms, Plate 12, p. r><>. L900. 

 Murrill, Mycologia, Vol. ::. PL 19, Pig. I. 

 Barper, Wis. Acad. Sci. Trans., Vol. IT. PL l'7 and 28, Lfl 

 Bard, Mushrooms, Pig. 209, |». 258, 1908. 

 Marshall, Mushroom Book, PL 30, p. 84. 

 Rkken, Biatterpilze, PL 55, Pig. I. 

 Patouillard, Tab. Analyt., No. 1 12. 

 Peek, N. Y. State Mus. Mem. I. Plate -",7. 

 Plate LIX of this Report. 



PILEUS 2-6 cm. broad, convex or nearly plane, soft, glabrous, or 

 nearly so. even, moist, in wet weather often slightly viscid to the 

 touch, whitish or more or less tinged with yellowish or leather-color 

 when old, margin at tiist incurved. FLESH white, medium thick. 

 (JILLS adnate seceding or becoming emarginate, somewhat 

 rounded behind, close, of medium width, nt fust whitish, 

 then tinged gray, finally brownish <>>■ rusty brown, edge crennlate. 

 STEM 3-8 cm. long, 3-5 mm. thick, rather Blender, equal or Bubequal, 

 usually straight, glabrous, apex pruinose, almost solid or stuffed by 

 a fibrous white pith, even or striate at apex, whitish. VE1 L whitish, 

 thin and frail, breaking variously, sometimes forming a thin, fragile 

 AXNTLl's. sometimes adhering in shreds to the margin of pileus. 

 Annnlus apical, fugacious. SPORES elliptical, 9-13x6-7 micr., 

 smooth, rusty-brown in mass. CYSTIDIA scattered, swollen-ventri- 



cose with short, broad apex, 35-45 micr. long, 12-15 micr. thick. 

 ODOR farinose. TASTE mild. 



Solitary or gregarious, rarely Bubcaespitose. <>n lawns, pastures, 

 roadsides, etc. sometimes in woods. Throughoul tin- State. Com- 

 mon in May and early June, niter heavy rains. 



One of our early edible mushrooms; easy t«> get, as it gro* 

 our very doors. It lias several near relatives ami var tewhat 



when growing in the w I>. PeCB has called tin- wood form ■ 



sylvestris; the cap is darker, brownish to rusty-brown. Another 

 form, because of its small size (pileua 2-3 cm.) and appendicul 

 margin of the pileus, was called var. minor by Prie 



