the agaricaceae of Michigan 



(ii) Not bitter; pileus brownish-ochraceous; gills 

 olivaceous. 358. C. glutinosus Pk. 

 (hh) Taste not bitter; spores elliptical, 

 (i) Gills dark olivaceous at first; stem tinged violace- 

 ous. 356. C. olivaceus Pk. 

 (ii) Gills yellow at first; stem whitish. 359. C. luteo- 

 fuscous Pk. 

 (gg) Pileus grayish to buff color or yellow. 



(h) Pileus virgate, becoming yellowish in age; gills 

 violaceous at first, 

 (i) Stem oval-bulbous at base; at first densely fibril- 

 lose. 349. C. lanatipes Pk. 

 (ii) Stem equal; pileus dark gray. 351. C. lapido- 

 philus Pk. 

 (hh) Pileus not virgate, pale, 

 (i) Stem stout, clavate-bulbous. 



(k) Pileus yellow; gills at first caesius. 350. C. 



claricolor Fr. 

 (kk) Pileus buff; gills pale violaceous. 353. C. 

 albidipes Pk. 

 (ii) Stem 3-7 mm. thick, equal, 

 (k) Spores subglobose; gills caesius at first. 354. 



C. decoloratus Fr. 

 (kk) Spores elliptical; gills whitish at first. 362. 

 C. communis Pk. 

 (AA) Cuticle of pileus not composed of gelatinous hyphae, hence neither 

 viscid nor glutinous. 

 (a) Pileus (and sometimes stem) distinctly scaly, usually large (ex- 

 cept C. flexipes). 

 (b) Scales pink-red to cinnabar-red, present on cap and stem; gills 



whitish or pallid at first. 368. C. bolaris Fr. 

 i bb i Without red-scales on pileus. 

 (c) Stem marked by cinnabar-red zones; pileus tawny-rufescent; 



gills pale brown. 422. C. armillatus Fr. 

 (cc) Stem without red bands, 

 (d) Pileus, gills and stem persistently dark violet; stem long 

 and stout; spores 12-16 micr. long; in conifer forests. 375. 

 C. violaceus Fr. 

 (dd ) Pileus not violet. 



(e) Pileus some shade of yellow, 

 (f) Stem arising from a white mycelium; pileus and stem 



tawny-yellow. 369. C, annulatus Pk. 

 (tT) Stem arising from a yellow mycelium; pileus and stem 

 saffron to chrome-yellow. 371. C. croceocolor Kauff 

 (ee) Pileus brown, umber or chocolate-color. 



(f) Stem provided above with a band-like annulus- whole 



Plant soon chocolate-color. 366. C. squamulosus Pk. 

 ( II ) Stem squarrose-scaly, brown to umber. 



Gills at first lilaceous or purplish; spores subglobose, 

 5-7 micr. 365. C. pholideus Fr. 

 g) Gills at first fulvous-brown; spores elliptical, 12x6 

 nncr. 374. C. squarrosus Clem. 

 PHeus not distinctly scaly, rarely fibrillose or tomentose. 



^e" young. P V1 ° let ' PUrpUsh ° r lilaceous ' at least the gills 

 (c) Pileus normally large, 5-10 cm. broad. 

 "D (.ills narrow and close. 



P S™iS! 1S i and IT unicol °™s, Pale violaceous; spores 

 , pM tn 7' l0n ?- 377 - C - argentatus Fr. var. 



Tonl h ZT 1S n' l ]! aC '' St6m Whitish ' s P° res 12-15 micr. 

 long. 381. c. braendlei Pk. 



