THE AGARICACEAE OF MICHIGAN 



jroung 3 sometimes becoming reflexed. GILLS rather narrow, sub- 

 distant, radiating from a naked lateral or eccentric point, white, 

 then subferruginous. SPORES elliptical, 6-7.5x3-4 micr." 



, in dead steins of herbs, decaying wood, etc., in woods. Tkrough- 

 out the State. June to November. Frequent. 



'I'h is little species grades into the next, but the spores seem to 

 be constant. The pileus is often only villose toward the base. 



554. Crepidotus versutus Pk. 



X. Y. State Mus. Rep. 30, 1878. 



Illustrations: Atkinson, Mushrooms, Fig. 150, p. 160, 1900. 

 Hard, Mushrooms, Fig. 227, p. 280, 190S. 



••PILEUS 8-20 mm. broad, at first resupinate, then reflexed, 

 reniform or dimidiate, sessile, white, clothed with a soft, downy or 

 tomentose villosity, incurved on the margin. GILLS rather broad, 

 subdistant, rounded behind, radiating from a lateral or eccentric 

 point, whitish then ferruginous. SPORES subelliptical, 9-10x6-7.5 

 micr." 



( >n logs, decaying wood, etc., in woods. Throughout the State. 

 June to October. Frequent. 



The larger spores and size of pileus distinguish C. versutus from 

 C. herbarum. 



555. Crepidotus cinnabarinus Pk. 

 Torr. Bot. Club, Bull. 22, 1895. 



PILEUS 5-10 mm. broad, subsessile to slightly stipitate, soon 

 reflexed lateral, scarlet to cinnabar-red, villose-tomentose, glabre- 

 scent, even on the margin. GILLS rather broad, subdistant, sinuate 

 behind, scarlet on edge, which is minutely fimbriate-crenulate. 

 STEM short, 1-L> mm. long, or almost lacking, lateral, minutely red- 

 dish-tomentose, continuous with the base of the pileus on the upper 

 aide. SPORES elliptical-oval, 7-9x4.5-5.5 micr., smooth, pointed 

 • '! one end, slightly tinged reddish. BASIDIA 20-25 micr. long 

 l'.\ 7!) wide, with 1, 2 or 4 sterigmata. 



<>n decaying bass-wood log, etc., in low moist woods, southeast 

 of Ann Arbor. September-November. Rare. 



This brilliant red but small species was rediscovered by the writer 

 years after it was first collected, when it was sent to Peck from Ann 



