CLASSIFICATION OP AGARU 



with darker fibrils, by the rosj gills at maturity and by the whitish 

 stem. When oioisl the color varies considerably. Sometimes it 

 becomes almost white on drying. E. clypeatum lias had the reputa 



tiuii in Euro] f being poisonous, bul is eaten with impunity bj 



mhiic who claim ii is harmless. Even if its edibility is established, 

 the amateur may have some difficulty in being cei tain of the bj>o< 

 The (.ileus is often persistently campanulate with au ob |m*x 



which separates it from forms having grayish caps. 



592. Entoloma rhodopolium Fr. 



Syst. Mycol., L821. 



[llustrations : Patouillard, Tab. Analyt., So •'• 



Murrill, Mycologia, PI. 92, Fig. I (as /.'. grayanun 

 Gillet, Champignons <le France, No. 275. 

 Plate OV of this Report. 



PILEUS is cm. broad, campanulate then expanded-plane, H> 

 hygrophanous, umber to fuscous (moist), pale livid-gray and Bilky 

 shining (dry), glabrous, cuticle Blightly differentiated with sub- 

 cartilaginous hyphae, with a gelatinous fee! but not viscid, un- 

 dulate and even on the margin. FLESH watery then white, scissile. 

 GILLS adnate, becoming emarginate, somewhat subdistant, some- 

 times veined, moderately broad, whitish then deep rose color, edge 

 minutely eroded. STEM 1-10 cm. long, 6-12 nun. thick, pun »'• 

 subequal, tapering up or down, sometimes curved, glabrous, .\\»-\ 

 rurfuraceous, white, spongy-stuffed then hollow, with ;i thickish, 

 fibrous, subcartilaginous cuticle, readily splitting longitudinally 

 on drying. SPOKES subglobose, 5-6 angled, "'''. , micr. in diameter, 

 (with a lew larger ones), deep rose color in mass. CYSTIDIA 

 none. ODOR and TASTE none. 



Solitary or subcaespitose. On the ground, mixed or frondose 

 woods. August-September. Now Richmond, Ann Arbor. 



Tie- <]i-r\i rosy spores, pure white stem, the toughish Bubcartil; 

 lion- pileus and colors are characteristic for our plants. The - 

 may have an odor ;it times. Fries says it has scarcely any odor: 

 others report a farinaceous odor. Our plants differ from the 

 description in the toughish cuticle on the pileus and Btem although 



collected in moist we;ither. The pileilS i- often d US ted on top by 



the rosy spores .is in < ' lit < ,j>ihi % aborttvus. Ir differs fundamentally 

 from /.'. griseum Pk. in the deep rose-colored gills and the glabi 

 and shining-white stem, hut agrees with it in being flrn ind in 



