CLASSIFICATION OF A.GARK 9 



apex when moist, whitish-buff elsewhere, glabrous, atomate when 

 dry; FLESH membranous. <illd,s adnexed, close to Bubdistant, 

 rather narrow, crisped <ni<l interveined, a1 first white then ferrugi- 

 aous-brown. STEM .""» '.i em. long, L-2 mm. thick, Blender, base 

 slightly bullions, hollow, fragile, pure whiU <>>■ tinged ochracco 

 sometimes faintlj striatulate. SPORES verj variable in siz< and 

 shnjti , elliptical, ovate or elliptic oval in some individuals, varying 

 L5xl3 or L2x8, etc., (11-16x8-14 micr.), smooth. CYSTIDIA 

 oone. STERILE CELLS on edge of gills, capitate. 



I >n lawns, pastures, etc. among grass. June-July. Ann Arbor, 

 Lansing, etc. Infrequent. 



This species was described by Longyear Prom our State. The 

 peculiar, crisped appearance of the gills, ami the slighl develop- 

 ment of the hygrophanous character in the pileus distinguishes it 

 from 0. tenera. Hard gives an excellent photograph of it. 



527. Galera teneroides Pk. 

 X. V. State Mus. Rep. 29, p. :i!>, 1878. 



IMLKI'S ."ii'ii nun. broad, conic-ovate at the very first, then cam- 

 panulate-ewpanded, soft, very fragile, sublubricous, hygrophanous, 

 brownish cinnamon and striatulate when moist, paler when dry, 

 glabrous. FLESH membranous. GILLS narrow Iy-adnate, narrow, 

 (lose, pale brown then ochraceoiis-cinnanion or watery brown. 

 STEM slender. 3-6 cm. long, l-l.."i mm. thick, elastic, straight then 

 flexuous, equal, slightly toughish, subpubescent, glabrescent and 

 shining, often striatulate. SPORES elliptical, small. 7-8.5 \ •". micr.. 



smooth, obtuse, pale ochraceoiis brown. BASIDIA I s \ s micr.. 



inflated above, aarrowed-stipitate, t-spored. STERILE CELLS on 

 edge of i;ills capitate. 



<>n horse-dung and ground or decayed debris in woods. Ann 

 Arbor, New Richmond. August September. 



Remarkable for the soft, fragile pileus ami somewhat toughish, 

 persistent stem; the latter separates from the rather waterj flesh 



of the pileus and is round in good condition alter the pileus has 

 collapsed. It has affinities with Bolbitius but the gills are Galera 

 like. The small spores separate it from related species on dung. It 



seems (dose to 0. spartea Ft., but that Bpedes is said to prefer 

 mossy or burned-over places in woods. Furthermore, Slassee savs 

 the gills of 0. spartea are broadly adnate, while Ricken says thei 



are narrow ly at tached. so that a clear idea of that Bpecies is hard 

 to obtain. 



