CLASSIFICATION OF ACARICS 



scales, fawn-color a1 first, qoI hygrophanous. FLESE thin, slight- 

 ly violaceous, soon whitish or sordid brownish, usually Infested with 



larvae. GILLS narrowly adnexed, medium broad, close, Lilac< a 



at first, soon clay color to brown, edge entire. STEM I 8 cm. Long 

 (sometimes Longer), 5 12 nun. thick, spongy-stuffed and tunneled 

 by larvae, slightly narrowed upwards, violaceous or Lilac-tinged 

 above the concentric, squarrose, brown scales which represent the 

 sheathing universal veil. CORTINA sparse, fibrillose. SPORES 

 oval, rough-punctate, 6-7.5x5-5.5 micr. BASIDIA i'7 x <» micr. 

 ODok and TASTE mild. 



Gregarious or caespitose. In moist forests, near decaying debris 

 or nn very rotten Logs, in the conifer regions <>f the State. Bay 

 View, Marquette. August-September. Infrequent. 



This well-marked species is probably frequent enough in its 

 particular localities. I have collected it a number of times on much 

 decayed wood in wet places, a preference which authors do not ap- 

 pear to have noticed for it elsewhere. The color varies somewhat 

 as to the shade of brown which the veil and the pileus possess, 

 but the characteristic scales of the cap and stem serve for easy 

 identification. Two European species approach it closely. C. 

 arenatus Pr. differs in its entire lack of violaceous hues. This has 

 been reported in the state list, hut it is probable that it was eon- 

 fused with a Pholiota. C. penicillatus is said to lack the squarrose 

 scales, as well as the violaceous tints of the .uills and flesh. ( . 

 asper Pk. may be only a variety of this specie-. 



366. Cortinarius squamulosus Pk. 



N. Y. State Cab. Rep. 23, 1872. 



Illustrations: Ibid, PI. :>>. Fig. 1-3. 



PILFd'S 4-10 cm. broad, semiglobose at first, then convex to bud- 

 expanded and broadly umbonate, surface densely appressed-tomen- 

 tose at first, 8oo»i broken up into dense, rather large, fibrillosi 



scalrs, sometimes warty on disk', brown and purplish-tinged at first, 



soon chocolate-brown. FLESH thick on disk, abruptly thin toward 

 margin, watery-spongy, pinkish-white 1<> grayish-white at first. 

 (JILLS adnate then deeply emarginate, rather broad, close, purpl- 



ish at fnst, soon dark i innamon to chocolate-brown, edge minutely 

 flocculose. STEM 8-15 cm. long, stout, swollen mur tin bast into 

 € large, oentricose-clavate i>iiii>, tapering below the bulb. 10-20 mm. 



