CLASSIFICATION OF A.GARH 



micr. diam., splitting into fibrillose parts on drying, viscid in very 

 wet weather, i>al<- livid-tan faded when dry, repand, wrinkled' 

 rugose, margin striate. GILLS mini .nil, abruptly rounded behind, 

 broad, subventricose, subdistanl a1 stem, pallid then brighl flesh 

 color, stem 6-8 cm. Long, L.5-2.5 cm. thick, stout, white, glabrx 

 apes subpruinose, even, subequal, stuffed then hollow. SPORES 

 sphoeroid-angular, 8-10 micr. diani., bright flesh color in nu 

 apiculus prominent, 5-6 angled. CYSTIDIA aone or very few, 

 fusoid. ODOR faint. TASTE strongly farinaceous. 



Gregarious. <*n the ground in white pine and beech w Is of 



western Michigan. New Richmond. September. Rare. Poison- 

 ous. 



This pare Entoloma is a rather stoul plant. It- pileus is \i-<-id 

 in we1 weather, although the descriptions merely call ii "pellic- 

 ulose," so thai ii is identified with difficulty when orte follows the 

 European authors. A specimen from Sweden, which was referred 

 to K. lividum by Romell, agrees with our specimens in having bud- 

 gelatinous thick hyphae in the cuticle, and when dried has the ap- 

 pearance of ;i surface one.- viscid or subviscid like that of our 

 plant. Furthermore E. lividum is described with a stuffed to hol- 

 low stem, while its near relatives E. sinuatum and E. prunuloidea 

 have solid stems. If Gillet's and Cooke's figures of the latter are cor- 

 rect, then I have never collected such Kutolomas with a \ iscid cuticle 

 on the pileus. Romell told me he tested the edibility of /.'. lividum 

 with serious consequences, and hence he mi-lit to know the plant. 

 It seems to be rare and will on thai accounl cause little damage. 

 The pills are often tinged yellowish and the pileus may have a 

 livid-brown color. /•;. prunuloidea Ft. is said to have an umbonate 

 ashy cap, sometimes tinged yellowish, considerably smaller accord 

 bag to Cooke's, Gillet's and Patouillard's figures, and the stem is 

 Blightly striate and solid. It is said to be viscid. 



Section II. Leptonidei. Pileus campanulate-expanded or con- 

 vex plane, dry. tloccuh.se or subsquamose; nol hygrophanous. 



587. Entoloma scabrinellum Pk. 

 \. V. State Mus. Rep. 33, L880. 



PILEUS L-3 cm. broad, broadly convex, expanded and Bubum- 

 Donate, dry, Bcabrous, densely covered by minute, erect, spine-like 



