CLASSIFICATION OP AOARK 



]y plane, reniform, covered with a fine prninosity, graj tinged with 

 pink, or grayish-brown, striate <>n the margin. FLESH thin, mem- 

 branous. GILLS subdecurreiit, grayish, ro>\ from the Bpores. 

 STEM short, eccentric, or lateral, Incurved, villose, whiU fibrils 

 radiating from tin base forming an interlaced membrane." 

 SPORES elongate-angular^ 9-11 x6-7micr., rosj in mass. 



< > 1 1 very rotten wood. Swamps of frondose or conifer tre< 

 Throughoul the State. Summer. Infrequently round. 



The description is taken from Pries and Patouillard. A.s in the 

 preceding species, there is ;i difference in the spore-measure- 

 ments given. Our plants have Bpores agreeing with those of Peck, 

 while iii Europe they seem to be smaller. Patouillard and Massee 

 give them 7-8x6 micr. The American form must, therefore, be 

 considered as ;i variety. It is scarcely distinct from C. griegt 

 Pk. 



LEI COSPORAE 



Amanita Fr. 



(From the Greek Amanos, the name of a mountain in Asia Minor, 

 which doubtless abounded in edible fungi, for the Roman physician 

 Galen used the term Amanites to refer to Agaricus campestris. 

 Persoon firsl applied it to this genus, using Amanita caesarea as 

 the type.) 



White-spored ; stem provided with an annulus and ;i volva, and 

 -••parable from the pileus. The gills are fret or attached by a line, 

 white, cut off squarely at anterior extremity. The volva is funned 

 from a universal veil which covers the whole plant in the ige 



and is discrete from the cuticle of the pileus. The typhi f the 



trama of the gills are divergent. 



Soft-fleshy, terrestrial, mostly poisonous mushrooms, asually of 

 rather large size, never truly caespitose; mostly in forests or on 

 the border of woods and thickets; sometimes, however, in fields or 



lawns. 



The PILEUS is soft, entirely enveloped at the beginning, along 

 with the stem, by a differentiated layer of tissue called the uni- 

 versal veil. When this splits above the pileus during the enlaj 

 ment of the plant, it is pulled oil' from the pileus ami leaves the 

 surface of the pileus glabrous; when it split-, circularly around the 



edge of the pileus i rirruniscissile i the loOSe layer left .m f..p 



ceases to grow and ;is the pileus expands ami enlarges, iiii- cover 

 ing is broken into patches or warts, Bometimes called scales; if 



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