}ls THE AGARICACEAE OF MICHIGAN 



edge of gills obclavate, rounded-inflated above, about 30x12 micr. 



ODOR slight. 



Scattered or subcaespitose. On the ground in low woods, 

 throughout the State. Marquette, Houghton, Bay View, New Rich- 

 mond. Detroit, Ann Arbor. July-September. Infrequent and never 



plentiful. 



Known by the smoky-blue lower part of the stem. The flesh 

 turns pinkish-red in young fresh specimens where cut. When old or 

 dry the stem is almost black below. 



466. Inocybe caesariata Fr. 



Epicrisis, 1836. 



Illustrations : Fries, Icones, PI. 109. 



Ricken, Die Blatterpilze, PI. 31, Fig. 4, 1911. 



PILEUS 2-5 cm. broad, broadly convex and obtuse, at first cov- 

 ered by dense, leather-yellow, ochre-yellowish or fulvous, tomentose- 

 fibrillose or erect warts or scales, becoming loosely fibrillose 

 m-;i1v. oppressed nbrillose on margin, not rimose, margin 

 incurved and at first connected with stem by a dingy- 

 white or ochraceous fibrillose cortina. FLESH white or 

 whitish, at length sub-ochraceous, thick and compact on disk, 

 thin on margin. GILLS rounded-ascending behind, adnate- 

 seceding or at length subdecurrent by tooth, rather broad, 

 ventricose, dull ochraceous-yellowish then ferruginous-ochraceous or 

 cinnamon, edge white-flocculose. STEM 1.5-4 cm long, 2-6 mm. 

 thick, usually rather stout and short, equal, at first floccose-scaly 

 below, usually densely floccose-fibrillose, concolor, apex flocculose- 

 scurfy, soon definitely tubular, ochraceous-whitish within. SPOKES 

 short oblong, rounded-obtuse at both. ends, subreniform, 8-10x5-6 

 micr., ochraceous-cinnamon in mass, smooth. CYSTIDIA none; 

 shrile cells on edge of gills variable, from inflated-pyriform to 

 fleruous-cylindrical. ODOR none. TASTE mild. 



(iregarious, usually many individuals in favorable spots, as 

 if sown. On the ground in moist places, naked soil or among short 

 grass, near springs, lakes or water courses. Spring and autumn. 

 Ann A.rbor, New Richmond. Not infrequent locally. 



A rather variable plant when found under different weather 

 conditions. In the luxuriant state or when fresh the cuticle of 

 the pileus is broken up into dense floccose warts the bases of which 



