CLASSIFICATION OF A.GARK 

 (AA) Pileus not viscid. 



(a) crowing in Belds, pastures, gardens, lawn . and on deoompo 

 vegetable matter (rarely in open wood >. large to medlu 

 (b) Annulua movable; planl vers large. 

 (c) riant taller than broad; Bporee whit.-, it is \ *.* 1 1 micr. • 



/.. procera it. 

 (co Planl as broad or broader than tail; spores 

 x 7-8 micr. 687. /. morgani Pk. 

 (bin Anniiins not Freelj movable (excepl sometimes In /.. american 

 (c) Planl assumes a <inli reddish color when bruised or on dryli 

 annulus rather large; spores 8-10 x 5-8 micr. t'.ss. /.. ameti- 

 carta Pk. 

 (cc) Plant not changing as above. 

 (d) Stem thickened toward base like the Beed-etalks of onions. 



densely caespitose. »;sn. /.. r,j,ii> sti/f s it. 

 (dd) Stem not of the above shape 

 (e) dills becoming pink in age; plleus linn, medium la: 



white; stein with persist, nt annulus. 689. /.. nOHCina 

 Pr. (syn. /.. naucinoides Pk.). 

 (ee) Gills remaining whitish; plleus small. rUgulOSO, widely 

 Striate, whitish. /,. rugulOSQ I'k. 

 (aa) Growing in forests, open woods, under copses, hush < rarely 



on lawns); medium to small. 

 (b) With some shade of blue or purple, either when fresh or on dry- 

 ing; small, 

 (c) Gills, stem, flesh etc. changing to blue when drying; annulus 

 membranous, persistent; pileus brownish-scaly. /.. <<>-rul--- 

 scens Pk. 

 (cc) Gills, etc., not changing to blue when drying; annulus pow- 

 dery, evanescent, 

 (d) Odor foetid; pileus lavender; stem dark brown to blackish 



below. /.. 1 1 itodora Atk. 

 (dd) Odor not foetid; plants small 

 (e) Pileus whitish, covered with a bellotrope-purple, powdery 



substance; flesh tinged yellow. I., purpureoconia Atk 

 (ee) Pileus whitish, tinged with blue around margin; flesh 

 turning brownish where bruised. /.. cyai Long- 



year. 

 (bb) Without shades of blue or purple. 



(c) Stem clothed with a tloccose, squamose or filamentous -h-ath; 

 pileus not granular nor mealy. 

 (d) Spores 12 micr. or more in length. 



(e) Pileus and lower stein brown; spores truncate a' b 

 with oblique apiculus. /.. geniculospora Atk. 



(ee) Pileus ochrai us or yellowish-white. BOmetimi 



tinged; spores subfusiform, 13-18 x t •"■ micr. 668. /. 

 clypeolaria Pr. i /.. metulaespora B. Ac Br.) 

 (dd) Spores less than 12 micr. long. 



(e) Growing on rotten wood, small; pileus pale t.iwn\ 

 subalutaceous. tloccose-scaly ; spores JJ-11 micr long. 

 /.. acerina Pk. 

 (ee) Growing on the ground, or among debris; usually 



smaller. 



(f) Plleus medium Blze, with erect, tom< i 



cose wart-like scales; veil copious. 



(g) Sport - 7 '.' mlcr. hum. 



ill) Gills crowded, much forked. 671. / 



ihin Gills crowded, ool forked. I L. 



squamosa Weiii. 

 (gg) Spores !"• micr. lone 672. / asperula Atk. 

 i n i Pileus with op? tomenti like 



seal.'.-. 



