CLASSIFICATION OF AGARICS |0fi 



mm. iliirk, peronate to or above the middle by the whitish, universal 

 veil, which terminates above in ;i flaring, membranous ring, dull 

 violaceous and silky above the veil, spongy-solid. SPORES 8-11 a 

 4.5-6 micr., ventricose-elliptical, rough tuberculate, maturing slowly, 

 rnsty-umber in mass. BASIDIA 36x6-7 micr. ODOR at first 

 Blight, sweet-aromatic after crushing the flesh. TASTE mild. 



Gregarious or subcaeepitose. Among humus and decayed debris 

 in frondose or pine woods. Soughton, New Richmond, Detroit. 

 August-September. I ofrequent. 



Well marked by the peculiar, though variable color, broad gills 

 and ilif membranous, annular-terminated sheath of the Btem. The 

 young plants have a very bulbous stem which becomes clavate 

 elongated. Two forms occur as in the shape <>r the Btem, a shorl 

 stemmed, stocky, bulbous form and a long-stemmed one in which 

 ilic bulb lias almost disappeared; the former Beems t" be more 

 frequenl and is shown by the figure in Grevillea and by our own 

 plate. The figure in Fries' [cones represents much larger specimens 

 than usually occur with us. Main- points out (Bull. d. 1*. Soc. Myc. 

 de France. Vol. 26, ]>. -7 1 that it is distinguished from the European 

 C. impennis. Pr. l»y its membranous annulus. The stem is often 

 curved at the swollen base and is sometimes ventricose. Its odor 

 reminds one of faintly aromatic substances. The spores may easily 

 be given too small since they mature slowly. Ricken says i 1m-\ meas- 

 ure 8-9x5-6 micr. Feck has a variety "nobilis" which may !»•• a 

 distinct species; it needs further sluily. 



412. Cortinarius plumiger Fr. 

 Fpicrisis. 1836-38. 



PILEUS 5-12 cm. broad, firm, campanulate, rarely conical-cam 

 panulate, obtuse <»r subumbonate, expanded, densely oppressed, 

 florillose-tomento8e or fibrUlose-hairy, hygrophanous, fading, sepia- 

 brown at first then light pinkish cinnamon (Ridg.), margin often 



decorated by narrow shreds of the universal veil. FLESH thick 

 on disk, thin toward margin, pallid brownish (moist) soon faded. 

 GILLS adnate then eniarginate. (dose, rather broad, pallid at first, 



rarely faintly tinged eaesious-violaceous, then clay color to mikado 

 brown (Ridg.), edge subcrenulate or entire. STEM 5-10 em. Kong, 



10-1S mm. thick above, clavate bulbous, stout, at length siibcvlindri 



cal above, spongy within but firm, very fibrillose, grayish-blue-violet 



("Ridg.) when fresh, quickly fading. COUCOlor within, at length 



