CLASSIFICATION OP A.GARH 



(CCC) Sinn silky, whitish or t i n u;>-< I blODg, • 



\ 3 micr. 577. P. ephebiua Pr. w 

 i hi) i Pileua short- or long-striatulate on margin. 

 (c) Pileua Blightly striate on margin, glabi nnamon-brown. 



p. chrysophaeua Pr. 

 i Pileua long-striate on margin, minutely velvety or "t. 

 granulose. 

 (d) Pileua L-3 cm. broad; Btem fibrous glabrous, wrhil 



brownish. I See HIT. Lrjitonia seticeps Atk.t 

 ,,l,l> Pileua 2.5-5 cm. broad; Btem Innately striatulate, glabi 

 :,s::. /•. longi8triatus l'k. 



Section I. Surface of the pileua ;ii Length fibrillose or floccose, 

 by ill,- breaking up of the horizontal layer of the fibrils ->i the 

 (in Lcle. 



574. Pluteus ceivinus Fr. (Edible 



Epicrisis, L836. 



Illustrations: Cooke, 111.. PI. 301. 



Patouillard, Tab. Analyt, No. ::::.'>. 

 Ricken, Blatterpilze, PI. 71. Fig. 1. 

 Atkins,, ii. Mushrooms, Fig. 132, |>. L38, L900. 

 Bard, Mushrooms, Fig. L88, L89, p. 235, L908. 

 Marshall, Mushroom Book, op. p. 87, L905. 

 X. V. Sim, ■ .Mns. Rep. 54, PL 71. 1901. 

 Mcllvaine, American Mushrooms, PL LXI, \>. 243. 

 Plate ('1 1 1 of this Report. 



PILEUS 5-10 cm. broad, rarely smaller, campanulate, then broad' 

 ]\ convex to expanded, varying <il<ii>>>>us to fii>ril!'>s< , fibrils darker, 

 disk sometimes scaly, even <>n margin, white dingy-tan, grayish 

 brown or darker, provided with a somewhat separable, sometimes 

 subviscid, pellicle; FLESB white GILLS close, free, broad, 

 rounded behind, white then flesh-colored from the spores. STEM 

 eqiml or Blightly tapering upward, 5-15 cm. long, •; L8 nun. thick, 

 firm, solid, dingy white to brownish-tan, glabrous or somewhat 

 fibrillose. SPORES inconstanl in size and shape, short-oblong, 

 oval, broadly elliptical, 5 8 \ 1-5 micr., Bometimes longer or broader, 

 more rarely globular, often nucleate, smooth, flesh-colored in mass. 

 CYSTIDLA abundant, fusoid, stout, terminating in 2 I short, blunl 

 horns. ODOB and TASTE somewhal disagreeable. 



Solitary, scattered, or when growing on sawdust, etc., often 

 caespitose. <>n stumps, logs, from underground roots or wood, on 

 boards, sawdust, etc Throughoul tin- State, mosth in broad leaved 



