CLASSIFICATION OF AGARICS 



spores are variable in size, even in the same plant One variety oc 

 curs in Low, mossy or sphagnous places, lis pileus is pale isabelline 

 or pale brownish-gray when moist, slightly virgate with fibrils, 

 scarcely or not at all striatulate. The gills are white a1 first. The 

 • s,, ' m is nl " lllr same cojor or is slightly paler than the pileus, bo 

 lll; " lllr whole planl has a uniform color when fresh and mature. 

 T,1< ' cap is apl to be truncate at the apex and campanulate; in all 

 other respects ii agrees with the species. /,. asprella is found in 

 coniferous regions, e. g., Bay View, New Richmond. See Ricken'e 

 figure of L. anatina, PI. 7::. Fig. <). Thai species, however, bas 

 markedly narrow sills. 



Nolanea Fr. 

 I Prom Latin, Nola, a little bell, i 



Pink-'spored. Stem hollow and cartilaginous <>r tough, usually 

 slender. Gills adnate, adnexed or almost free, seceding, not decur- 

 rent. Pileus thin, campanulate, usually papillate, margin ai firsl 

 straight ami applied to the stem. Spores angular. 



Terrestrial, small, slender plants, corresponding i<> fcfycena of 

 the white-spored group, approaching the smaller Entolomas, ami 

 separated from Leptonia by the unexpanded bell-shaped pileus. h 

 is a small genus. 



The PILEUS is glabrous, silky or scurfy, dry or bygrophanous ; 

 ami its campanulate shape which is rather persistent and is due to 

 the positi.,11 of the straighl margin on the stem when young, is 



quite characteristic. It is usually fragile. The color is s shade 



of brown in our species except in A. caelestina. The GILLS are 

 often broad or ventricose, ami generally secede (i. e. separate) from 

 i 1 "' attachment at the stem, in which respect they differ from those 

 of Clitopilus. The STEM is central, tubular and elastic or fragile 

 in most species; iu some, however, it is toughish-cartilaginous 

 like that of certain Mycenas. h bas ;i tendency to become com 

 pressed or longitudinally furrowed because of its hollow interior. 

 It is usually glabrous or minutely flocculose; in V. dusthales (Pk.) 

 it is densely floccose hairy. There is no ahnulus, nor volva, and the 

 flesh is confluent with that of the pileus. The SPORES are angular, 

 often irregularly tuberculate-angular. CYSTIDLA are usually ab 

 sent; in V*. babingtonii and \. dysthalea the.\ may be found <>n the 

 edge of the gills. A few species have a slighl ODOR; that of V. 

 »><n»»ii>s,, i» similar to rancid meal. The Nolaneaa are difficult 



