CLASSIFICATION OK AGARICS 543 



Btriatulate or Innately fibrillose. SPORES subglobose, t-5.5 micr. 

 ddam., smooth, flesh color. CYSTIDIA fusiform bottle-shaped, 

 sometimes tapering to a point a1 apex, qoI horned, vaculoate, 75-80 

 micr. Long, on the sides and edge of the .uills. 



Solitary or scattered. <>n decaying logs, Bticks, etc., in low 

 woods and swamps. Jnne to October. Throughout the State: 

 Huron .Mountains, New Richmond, Ann Arbor. Infrequent. 



The velvety character of the pileus is only apparenl since the but- 

 face under a lens is granulose or pulverulenl ; this is due to globular 

 or fusoid cells which compose the surface layer and ui\e 11 the 



brown appearance. It is separated from a number of Others by the 



glabrous stem, small size and subglobose Bpores. it may o [ > j •■ -.i i- 

 quite early. There is sometimes a smoky tinge on the cap. 



Yar. lutescens Fr. Stem and sometimes the gills are yellow. 

 The spores seem to be more trul\ spherical in the variety; stem 

 solid, striate. 



Habitat, etc.. as in the type: New Richmond, Ami Arbor. in- 

 frequent. 



582. Pluteus caloceps Atk. 

 Ann. Mycol., 1909. 



"PILEUS 2.5-4.5 cm. broad, convex, umbonate, orpiment-orange 

 to vermillion, orange-vermillion on center, glabrous or slightly 

 granular by separation of the cells, or somewhat rimose on margin; 

 trama two-layered, outer layer composed of globose cells. FLESH 

 white. GILLS free, rounded behind, broadly elliptical to subventri- 

 cose, pale dull flesh color, edge flocculose, trama! hyphae converg- 

 ing. STEM ::<; cm. long, :'> 5 mm. thick, pallid, fibrous-stri 

 SPORES suboblong, 5-8 \ I 6 micr. CYSTIDLA ventricose on sides 

 of gills, clavate to subfusoid on edge, 60-75 s L2-20 micr." 



Solitary. On rotten wood and on the ground. Ann Arbor. Bare. 



583. Pluteus longistriatus Pk. 



N. V. State Mus. Rep. 30, L878. 

 Illustration : Plate CTV of this Report. 



PILEUS 2-5 cm. broad, very thin, comma then expanded, pale 

 brownish-gray to brownish-ashy, minutely Bcaly on disk and 

 cuticle ;it length breaking into minute granules, long-striaU 



