CLASSIFICATION OK A.GARH 



Section l. Lubricae. The young plant enclosed in ;i universal 

 glutinous veil. The trama of the gills divergent. 



664. Lepiota illinita IV. 



Syst. .Mvc. L821. 



[llustrations : Pries, [cones, PI. L6, Fig. I. 

 Patouillard Tab. Analj i.. fasc. VII, No. 609. 

 Gillet, Champignons de Prance, No. 125. 



I'lLF.rs :m; cm. broad, thin, Boft, ovate then campanolate-e 

 panded, snbumbonate, glutinous (moist), glabrous, white, or whit- 

 ish, even or substriate on margin. GILLS free, close, moderately 

 broad, white, soli, trama divergent. STEM 5-8 cm. \ 3-6 mm., 



while, glutinous, equal, siull'ed to hollow, nut scaly. FLESH 



white, soft. thin. SPORES 1-6x3-4 micr., subglobose to ovoid, 

 smooth, white. TASTE and ODOR none. ANNULUS obsol 

 glutinous. 



Singly or gregarious. Ground, white birch woods aear Biarquette. 

 Elm and maple woods, southern Michigan. September. 



Known by its glutinous and slimy cap and stem. The European 

 plants are a little la run'. 



Section II. Yiscidac Surface of pilous provided with a con- 

 tinuous gelatinous, separable pellicle; Btem dry. Trama of udlls 

 divergent i except in L. delicata). 



665. Lepiota gliodeima l'r. 

 Monographia, 1857. 



Illustration: Cooke. III.. PI. Il> A. 



PILEUS 2-5 cm. broad, obtuselj convex, viscid, reddish bay fad 

 Lng to dull ferruginous, glabrous, even, cuticle separable. FLESH 

 thin, while or tinged rufous. GILLS close, broad, Bubventrico 



while, iice inn reaching apex of stem by a point, edge very even, 

 trama divergent. STEM 5-7 cm. long, I >> mm. thick, dry, covered 

 with reddish-floccosi scales up to the Blight ANN1 l I 9 

 attenuated downward-, solid, fibrous. SPORES globose, 1-5 D 



