492 THE AGARICACEAE OP MICHIGAN 



Sf< ction, III. Sapineae. Spore mass ochre-yellow. Gills fulvous- 

 golden yellow. Pileus dry or nearly so. 



519. Flammula sapinea Fr. 



Syst. Myc., 1821. 



Illustrations : Fries, Icones, PL 118, Fig. 3. 

 Cooke, 111., PL 447. 



Michael, Fiihrer f. Pilzfreunde, Vol. Ill, No. 90. 

 Moffatt, Chicago Nat. Ills. Surv., Bull. 7, Part I, PL 9, Fig. 2, 



PILEUS 2-7 cm. broad, firm, convex, then subexpanded, obtuse, 

 golden-yellow to tawny, paler toward margin, velvety or minutely 

 floccose-scaly , dry, at length fading and rimose-cracked. FLESH 

 thick, yellowish. GILLS adnate, plane, rather narrow, thin, 

 chrome-yellow then rusty-yellow, edge minutely fimbriate. STEM 

 4-7 cm. long, 6-12 mm. thick, rather stout, stuffed then hollow, 

 sometimes compressed and irregular, fibrous, innately fibrillose, 

 yellowish, brownish below when handled. CORTINA yellowish, 

 scanty. SPORES elliptical, 6-8x4-5 inicr., smooth, rusty-yellow. 

 ODOR strong. 



Subcaespitose, scattered or solitary. On wood of conifers in the 

 north; on tamarack stumps and logs in the southern part of the 

 State. Bay View, New Richmond, Ann Arbor, Detroit. August- 

 October. Infrequent. 



This is a rather variable plant, not yet sufficiently studied. The 

 forms on tamarack are apparently the same as the species in pine 

 and hemlock woods but often the pileus is almost glabrous. In the 

 young slate the colors are rich, in age they often fade. 



Galera Fr. 

 (From the Latin, Galera, a little helmet.) 



Ochre-brown or rusty-yellow spored. Stem suhcartilaginous, 

 tubular, slender. Partial veil none or fibrillose; volva lacking. 

 Pileus thin, conical, campanulate or oval, its margin at first 

 straight and appressed on the stem. Spores elliptical or oval, 

 usually smooth. Cystidia lacking. 



Putrescent, fragile, small mushrooms, growing on dung, mosses, 

 grass or on the ground. They correspond to Mycena of the white- 



