CLASSIFICATION <>F AG ARK 607 



Section ll. Universal veil splitting in ;i circular line between 

 Inill) ;iinl pileus (circumscissile) , the upper half adhering "// //" 

 pileus in the form ol fioccose scales, warts or pyramids, the lower 

 hair adhering to the bulb or the base of the stem and forming abrupl 

 unrolled sheaths, or Beveral imperfecl rings. The universal \'-m Is 

 composed of globose, inflated cells, al leasl In the upper part. 



* Annul/us median or inferior. 



647. Amanita tomentella Kromb. (SusPE< im> 

 Naturgetreue Abbildungen, 1831. 



Illustrations: Krombholtz, ibid. 



Ricken, Blatterpilze, PI. 7t'». Fig. I. (As L. porphyria.) 



PILEUS I -9 cm. broad, convex then expanded, umber-brown or 

 paler, with a tinge of violaceous (ecru-drab, Ridg.), almost dry, 

 radiately-silky, shining, covered by numerous, delicate, pulverulenl 

 lloecose. appressed, ash-colored scales, margin even and decurved. 

 FLESH white or tinged ashy under the separable pellicle GILLS 

 white, rather narrow, of equal width, close, tree or decurrenl by 

 a line, edg( minutely fimbriate and sometimes ashy-tinged. STI'.M 

 7!) cm. long, tapering upward from the thick, ovoid bulb, stuffed 

 then hollow, often with an ash;/ pulverulena both abovi and below 

 the distant annulus, innately scaly below, whitish. VOLVA thick, 

 circnmscissile, covered with tomentose pulverulence, it- margin 



thick, short and somewhal angled. ANNULUS i lian, usually 



ample, membranous, thin, persistent, ashy-colored on under side, 

 somewhal striate above. SPORES spherical, s '*.o micr. in diam., 

 smooth, white with minute apiculus. 



i Dried : < !ap shining, chestnut, scales paler; gills pale alutaceous. i 



Solitary. In conifer and mixed woods of northern Michigan. 

 Isle Royale, Houghton, Munising. Augusl October. Infrequent. 



I have restored Krombholtz's mime in order properly to limit 

 our plant. According to Boudier L. recutita has oval spores, 1 1 12 s 

 7 !» micr. in size. Except for this discrepancy, this form would be 

 referred to th.it species. It differs from 1. porphyria in belonging 

 to this section, by reason of its circumscissile universal \<'ii and 

 lloecose structure of the scales on the cap, which are numer< 

 the spores, however, are the same. No doubl our plant is 

 three different species, which are closelj related, it is easily known 



