31 l 



THE AGARICACEAE OP MICHIGAN 



pallid or brownish, subfragile. ANNULUS apical, siibper&istent, 

 soft-floccose-fibrillose, white. SPORES 7-8x4 micr., smooth. It 

 seemed intermediate between the genera Pholiota and Naucoria. 



308. Pholiota mycenoides Fr. 



Sys. Myc., 1821. 



Illustration: Cooke, 111., Plate 503. 



''PILEUS 2.3 cm. broad, membranaceus, campanulate then con- 

 rex, everywhere striate, hygrophanous, ferruginous-tawny or pale 

 tan when dry. GILLS adnate, rather distant, narrow, ferruginous. 

 STEM 34 cm. long, 2 mm. thick, glabrous, ferruginous, hollow. 

 ANNULUS superior, membranaceous, white. SPORES 8-10x5-6 

 micr. 



Among moss in swamps." 



This species was reported by Longyear in 4th Rep. Mich. Acad. 

 Sri. as having been found by Beardslee in Montmorency county. The 

 description is adapted from Massee. 



Cortinarius Fr. 



(From tlie Latin, Cortina, a curtain, referring to the cobwebby 

 threads which hide the gills of the young plants.) 



< Jinnamon-spored or rusty-brown-spored. Stem fleshy and continu- 

 ous with the pileus. When young provided tcith a cobwebby cortina 

 which connects the edge of the pileus with the stem ; often also 

 with a universal veil which on collapsing leaves an annulus, sub- 

 annular rings, a sheath or shreds on the stem. Gills persistent, 

 dry. adnate becoming emarginate, changing color during process 

 nt maturing, at length powdery with the clinging dark brown spores. 



Putrescent, terrestrial, mostly forest mushrooms, composing a 

 most natural group. The caps are often brightly colored and when 

 young the gills of different species also assume various shades of 

 color. The genus is divided into seven subgenera: Myxacium, 

 Bulbopodium, Phlegmacium, Inoloma, Dermocybe, Telamonia and 

 Bydrocyhe. Of these the first three have a viscid pileus, and in 

 this reaped approach the genus Hebeloma. The latter is however, 

 separable by its paler, alutaceus spores and fibrillose or absent 

 cortina. The subgenera Inoloma and Dermocybe agree with the 



