CLASSIFICATION OF AGAK1« .',71 



(Dried: Pileus and stem dingj white tinged tail color; gills 



bl'ownish-llesh color, i 



Very caespitose, sometimes singly. < >n the ground in open oak 

 and maple woods of southern Michigan; in mixed woods of maple 

 and pine in the north. August-October. Throughout the State, 

 [nfrequent. 



This is easily mistaken for a Clitocybe. The spores have a dingy 

 flesh tinge in mass, like TriicJioloma persona turn and Tricholoma 

 panoeolum var. caespitosuin. In rainy weather it is water-soaked and 

 appears as it' hygrophanous. Ms fragile flesh and its usually large 

 size separate it from other Clitopili. It seems to be much more 

 closely related to the genus Clitocyhe than to Clitopilus. 



Leptonia Fr. 

 (From the (ireek. lejtidion, a small scale, i 



Pink-spored. Pileus at length subexpanded <tn<l depressed in 

 center, umbilicus minutely squamulose, margin at first incurved. 

 stem cartilaginous, confluent with the pileus, stuffed, soon hollow. 

 Gills adnexed or adnate, seceding. Spores a>i</itl<ir. 



Terrestrialj lignieolous or sphagnicolous. Bather small, slender- 

 stemmed plants of low wet places in woods or swamps. They cor- 

 respond to Collybia of the white-spored group. From Nolanea they 

 are distinguished by the more expanded, subumbilicate pileus whose 

 margin is at first incurved instead of straight on the stem. 



The PILEUS is often minutely scaly or fibrillose, sometimes gla- 

 brous; hygrophanous or merely moist ; even or striate on the margin. 

 The colors are often bright, rosy, violet, yellowish, greenish or blue- 

 black. As in Collybia, the pileus tends to expand rather fully, 

 hecause of the position of the margin when young. The peculiar 

 lustre is due. according to Patouillard, to the presence of air be- 

 tween the hyphae of the surface layer. The GILLS secede from the 

 stem at maturity as in Nolanea; at lirsi they are either adnexed 

 or adnate. The color when young is t" he noted, as it varies in dif- 

 ferent species, at first it may he gray, bluish, or whitish, at length 

 the gills are colored by the spores. The STEM, as in Nolanea and 

 Eccilia, is cartilaginous, hollow- (sometimes stuffed), confluent with 

 the pileus but of a different texture; it is composed of parallel 

 hyphae. with long cells, which are regularly cylindrical. It is 

 usually glabrous and polished, but some species are dotted with 

 colored squamules. It is often compressed and furrowed longi 



