CLASSIFICATION' OF AGARN 

 667. Lepiota delicata IV. var, 



Syst. Myc, L821. 



1 1 1 ust im t ion : Fries, [cones, PI. L5, Pig. 2. 



PILEUS 2 i ciii. broad, thin, subumbonate, campanulate-expand- 

 ed, with ;i continuous, separable, sub viscid cuticle, delicately pink 

 colored, sometimes shading to white on margin, even, radiately 

 innately Bilky. FLESH pure white, unchanged when bruised, thin, 



fragile. GILLS narrow, close, free, b -what remote, pure white. 



STEM 5-9 cm. Long, 3-5 mm. thick, tapering upwards from i rob- 

 clavate bulb, dry, glabrous, curved or straight, soft, Btuffed. AN 

 NULUS membranous, thin, subpersistent, white, median, ;ii length 

 pendant. SPOBES 5-6.5 \ 3 I micr., elliptical, subacute ;ii ends, 

 white, smooth. CYSTIDIA on edge of gills subcylindrical, cluster- 

 ed, Qumerous, 7 \ L.5 micr., none on sides of ejiis; basidia I Bpored. 

 ODOB and TASTE Done. 



i Dried : An mil us snow-white, stem and .nil Is pale alutaceous, cap 

 pink with brownish umbo, i 



Gregarious. On the ground in swampy woods of elm. etc., also 

 under hemlock in ravines. New Richmond. September. Infre- 

 quent. 



L. oblita Pk. differs in its viscid stem ami more tawny pileus; 

 tin- spores are similar. It is apparently much like /.. incamata 

 Clem, ami /.. rufescen8 Morg. The presence of a separable gelatin- 

 ous cuticle, the unchangeable flesh, and the cystidia distinguish it 

 from these. A hot house variety is said to occur in Europe. 



Section III. Clypeolariae. stem clothed at first by a tl Be 



of filamentous sheath. Pileus pruinose, floccose or appressed scaly, 

 the cut icle at firsl continuous. 



668. Lepiota clypeolaria I'r. Si SPi 



Sys. Mycol., L821. 



Illustrations: Fries, [cones, PI. II. Fig. 2. 

 N. Y. State -Mus. Rep't. 54, PI. 7'i. L901. 

 Gillet, Champignons de France, No. U6. 

 Ricken, Blatterpilze, PI. 85, Fig. 2. 

 Plate CXXV1 M of this Report. 



PILEUS 2-5 cm. broad, campanulate-conves to expanded, ob 



