THE AGARICACEAE OF MICHIGAN 

 521. Galera lateritia Fr. 



Syst Myc, L821. 



Illustrations: Fries. Icones, PL 127. 



Michael, Fiihrer f. Pilzfreunde, Vol. Ill, No. 94. 

 Ricken ; Die Blatterpilze, Plate GO. Fig. 11. 

 Cooke, 111., Plate 460. 



PILEUS 2.5-3 cm. high, 2-2.5 cm. wide, almost bylindricai-conical r 

 later subcampanulate, pale isabelline, hygrophanous, glabrous, fine- 

 ly striate on margin. FLESH membranous. GILLS nearly free, 

 narrow, linear, ascending, crowded, fulvous-rusty-ochraceous. 

 STEM 5-10 cm. long, 2-3 mm. thick, rigid, equal, hollow, fragile, 

 pun white, mealy-frosted. SPORES elliptical, ferruginous, 12-15 



- 9 micr., smooth. STEEILE CELLS on edge of gills capitate. 



On dung or rich grassy places. Reported by Longyear as abund- 

 ant : rarely seen by the writer. June-September. 



The color of the cap is not as dark as in some of the Friesian. 

 figures; a fact noted by European as well as American observers. 

 The narrow, elongated pileus is unique among the Galeras. 



522. Galera bulbifera sp. nov. 



I' ILEUS .5-2.5 cm. broad, oval-campanulate, obtuse, ferruginous- 

 cinnamon when moist, hygrophanous, ochraceous and atomate when 

 dry, rivulose-reticulate. GILLS ascending-adnate, narrow, sub- 

 linear, close to crowded, ferruginous-cinnamon, sprinkled by fer- 

 ruginous spores. STEM 6-15 cm. long, 1.5-3 mm. thick, strict when 

 moist, equal above the bulbous base, pale ferruginous, hollow, glab- 

 rous-shining when dry, sometimes faintly striatulate. SPORES 

 elliptical, obtuse at ends, smooth, ferruginous in mass, 12-15x8-9' 

 micr. CYSTIDIA none. STERILE CELLS on edge of gills small, 

 'Militate. ODOR none. 



On horse dunu: dung-hills in mixed woods. Xew Richmond. 



ptember. 



Variable in size: solitary specimens attain the large size, while 

 a patch of them is apt to be composed of smaller sizes. It has the 

 appearance, in the large condition, of G. ovalis, but differs by the 

 narrow gills, etc. It is well marked by the gills, the bulblet at base 

 of stem, ami the spores. The whole plant is ferruginous-cinnamon 

 when moist, and in large plants the pileus is finely rugose-reticu- 

 late. 



