CLASSIFICATION OP A.GARI' 



597. Entoloma strictius Pk. (Si -im .< TED 



\. v. State .Miis. Rep. 23, L872. 



Illustrations: [bid, PL 2, Pigs. 6-9. 



Atkinson. Bfushrooms, Pig. L38, p. U6, L900. 

 Plate CVI1 <>!' this Report. 



PILEUS 2. 5-6 cm. broad, rigid-fragile, obtusel) conic-camp 

 nulate to broadly campanulate, then expanded and often strongly 

 umbonate, glabrous, hygrophanous, umber to waterj cinnamon 

 (moist), pearl-gray and silky-shining (dry), margin even or pel- 

 lucid-striatulate when moist, somewhal wavy, thin and at Length 

 splitting. FLESH quite thin, cone. dor. scissile. GILLS adnexed, 

 then emarginate or sinuate, ventricose, broad, uarrowed in front, 

 close to subdistant, white or pallid then rosj incarnate, edge 

 minutely eroded. STEM 6-10 cm. Long, 3-7 nun. thick, slender, 

 cylindrical or tapering slightly upward, sometimes obscurely bulb- 

 ous, strict, stuffed then hollow, rigid-fragile, twisted, flbrillose- 

 sti-iate. pallid to pale grayish-white. SPORES elongated-angular, 

 curved toward apiculus, L0-12x6-8 micr., aucleate, cinnamon-rose 

 color in mass. BASIDIA about L0 x 8-9 micr., L-spored. CYSTIDIA 

 none. ODOE and TASTE none. 



Subcaespitose. In swampy or low woods or near Bphagnum 

 swamps, near or on much-decayed stumps, nr. July-August Ann 

 Arbor, New Richmond, Eas1 Lansing. Infrequent. 



Very distinct. The pileus is usually markedly campanulate, with 

 ;i strikingly mammate umbo, very hygrophanous becoming silvery 

 shining when dry, and the thin flesh is at Length split on the margin. 

 The stem is very straight and easily splits Longitudinally. The 

 spore mass is peculiarly colored; when deposited thickly on white 

 paper it has a deep rufous or cinnamon rose color. The width of 

 the spores are given too Large by Peck. The striations on the mar- 

 gin of '•"• <ap soon disappear or are Lacking. The Bmaller speci- 

 mens have the appearance of a Nolanea. 



