CLASSIFICATION OP AGAR] 



smooth, flesh color in m;iss. CYSTIDIA fusoid, 73-85s L5-20 micr., 

 apex with 2-4 bonis. ODOB and TASTE slightly disagreeable. 



Solitary or scattered od rotten wood, in conifer woods, usually 

 on hemlock or pine. Union Mountains, Houghton, Now Richmond. 

 August and September, [nfrequenl excepl locally. 



Distinguished a1 once by the smokj brown edge of the gills. 

 tends to be smaller than /'. cervinus and darker in color. /'. g\ 

 ularis var. umbrosellus has yellowish edged .uilK and its dia 



are qo1 horned. There seem to be a number of varieties conm 

 ing /'. cervinus and /'. umbrosus. Mfcllvaine pronounces it edible. 



576. Pluteus salicinus Fr. var. 



Syst. Mycol., L821 (as Leptonia salicinus). 

 [llustration : Cooke, 111., PL L169. 



PILEUS 2-5 can. broad, convex to expanded, broadly umbonate, 

 smoky-umber, pruinose-velvety, disk flocculose, margin even. 

 GILLS free, close, not broad, reaching margin of cap, edgt concolor, 

 white then flesh-colored from the spores. STEM equal, 2-4 tan. 

 long, 2-4 mm. thick, base bulbillose, curved, shining, silky-fibrillo 

 stuffed, whitish but covered with smoky fibrils, base smoky-olive. 



SPORES broadly elliptical, 7.5.-8.5x5-6 micr., si th, flesh color. 



CYSTIDIA 2-4 pronged at apex, 75-90 x L5-17 micr., fuscoid, stout. 



Solitary. On rotten wood, in willow and alder swamp. July- 

 August. Ann Alitor. Bare. 



The green tinge is not very marked on the pileus but is quite 

 marked at the base of the stem. It agrees besl with Biassee's de- 

 scription (British Fungus Flora). The typical bluish form has 

 not been *ecn by me in the State, although collected elsewhere. 

 The horned cystidia separate it from other smoky-umber species, 

 and the white edge of the gills distinguishes it from P. umbrosus. 



577. Pluteus ephebius Fr. 

 Syst. .Myco].. L821. 



Illustration: Cooke, 111.. PI. 517. 



PILEUS 2.5 cm. broad, convex-expanded, delicately silky-fibril- 

 lose, shining, becoming somewhat fibrillose-scaly, not at all gran- 

 ular, mo list gray, nnicolorous, even on margin. GILLS fn 



