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547. Naucoria pediades I r. 



Sysi. Myc, L821. 



[llustrations : Cooke, 111.. PI. 192. 



Gillet, Champignons de, France, No. 188. 

 Patouillard, Tab. Analyt., No. 346. 

 Bard, Mushr s, Pig. 228, p. 282, 1908. 



"PILEUS 2.5 -6 fin. broad, campanulate-hemispherical, ;n length 

 plane, obtuse, dry, not shining, fulvous-ochraceous then isabelline- 

 yellow, delicately toinentulose toward margin, margin silky Qoccose. 

 FLESH pallid, Blightly fleshy. GILLS broadly adnate, rounded 

 behind, rather broad, close t<> subdistant, ventricose, brownish pallid 

 at first, a1 length sordid limwn. STEM 17 (or more) cm. long, 2-3 

 (or more) nun. thick, often twisted, unequal, stuffed, silky-fulvous, 

 concolor <»r yellowish, granular-flocculose. SPOKES oval, LO-12 x •'. 7 

 micr., argillaceous-brown In mass. CYSTIDIA (on edge) yentrico 

 fusiform, 15-50x8-10 micr. < ) I x >K subfarinaceous. TASTE some- 

 i imes nauseous." 



Reported as common on lawns and roadsides 1 » v Lmiirvear. I >> 

 script ion adapted from Kicken. 



548. Naucoria tabacina Fr. 



Epicrisis, 1836-38. 



Illustration: Cooke, III.. PL 193. 



PILEUS ti 18 mm. broad, convex, obtuse, then almost plane, gla 

 brous, hygrophanous, even, watery bay-fuscous (moist), dull ochra- 

 ceous-cinnamon (dry). FLESH concolor, thin. GILLS adnate- 

 seceding, narrowed in from, rather broad behind, close, ;ii length 

 horizontal, alutaceous-brownish, edge white-floccuk>se. STEM 2-3 

 cm. Long, L-3 mm. thick, tapering downward, straighl or curved, 

 stuffed then hollow, toughish, brownish-uniber, fibrillost floccose. 



SPORES elliptic-ovate, 6-8s I 1.5 micr., si th, fuscous-brown in 



mass. <>i><>K aone. TASTE bitterish. 



Caespitose or subcaespitose, on the ground in a cornfield, etc. 

 Ann Arbor. June. Infrequent. Known by its dark colors and 

 small spores. The gills often run down the stem by a line. 



Section II. Lcpidotae. Pileus flocculose or scaly. Veil mani- 

 fesl (universal). Spores rust-colored. 



