CLASSIFICATION OP &GARK 



long, 5 l- mm. thick, equal « > i - tapering upward, stuffed then hollow, 

 Bubglabrous, or furfuraceous, white above, darker to pale amber 

 below when it is somewhat decorated by (!>> fragment tin 



mouse-gray volva. SPORES spherical, 9 L2.5 micr./granular within. 



Solitary or scattered, in mixed forests of hemlock, maple and 

 yellow birch, of the northern pari of the State. Baj View, Mar 

 qnette, Eoughton. July-September. Nol infrequenl .ii tin 

 Edible. 



It is remarkable thai this species doea do1 occur in the southern 

 p;i it of ili«- State; a1 least 1 have aever seen it there. Peck and 

 Mcllvaine say ii occurs "in open grassy places, in wheal stubble, 

 etc." as well as in the woods, in Pennsylvania, New Jersey .ni<i 

 West Virginia. So far 1 have Been it three different Bummers in 

 the Northern Peninsula, always in hemlock \\ Is. 



The SPORES arc no1 in entire agreemenl with the European 

 measurements. With us they are spherical <>r aearly so. Saccardo 

 is evidently in error when he says thej measure 9-15 micr. and 

 are ovate; Stevenson quotes Smith's measurements as L6x8 micr., 

 ami Boudier gives them as L2-13 micr. Peck considers ii clearly 

 distinct from l. vagmata and in the 51s1 Reporl has given an ea 

 cellent account of the plant. 



Lepiota li . 

 i Prom the Greek lepis, a Bcale. I 



White-spored (excepl L. morgani) ; stem fleshy, separabU from 

 the pileus, provided with a persistenl or evanescenl annulus; udlls 

 free (excepl in some of the "granulosi" section). 



Fleshy, firm <>r soft mushrooms, growing on the ground, on debi 

 or on more or less rotten wood in forests; large and small. 



The PILEUS is scaly from the breaking np of the cuticle, rarely 

 smooth, most often white, hut also tinged yellow, brown or red; 

 there are a few species with a viscid pileus. The STEM is Btuffed 

 or hollow, firm or soft, fleshy and differenl in texture from the 

 trama of the pileus. and easily separable from it. The <;ii 

 are white, but may change color in age or when bruised; (in /.. 

 morgani they become Bordid-green from the greenish sp The> 



are usually free, lint a snmll group has adnate or adnexed gills, 

 although otherwise like the genus; e. g., /.. granosa, L. amianthina, 

 etc. 



The VEIL is theoretically double, as in Amanita, bul the ou1 



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