CLASSIFICATION OP AGARICS 



669. Lepiota felina It. 



Ilvm. Burop., L874. 



Illustrations: Pat, Tab. Analyt., No. 505. 

 Ricken, Biatterpilze, PL 86, Pig. 3. 



PILEUS 3-5 cm. broad, cainpanulate-convex, subumbonate, whit- 

 ish under the numerous subtomentose or floccose blackish 

 FLESH white, thin. GILLS free, close, rather narrow, white. 

 STEM slender, equal or tapering upward, base with slight bulb, 

 hollow, whitish, clothed below by floccose, brown or blackish Bcales. 

 anmm'S slight, evanescent, inferior or median, sometimes ting 

 black on edge. SPORES 6-8.5x4-5 micr., elliptic-ovoid, white; 



basidia I Bpored. 

 On the -round, hemlock woods. Bay View. Augusl September. 



Infrequent or rare. 



Distinguished from L. clypeolaria by its spores, from /.. cristata 

 by the blackish scales and floccose stem. SPORES 8 L0x3 I micr., 

 as given by Ricken. The Michigan plant may be L. fuscosquamea 

 Pk. 



Section IV. Asperae. Pileua fibrillose-scaly a1 first, then with 

 pointed, or pyramidal or fasciculate erecl op squarrose Bcales or 



warts: stem variously sheathed or glabrescent. 



670. Lepiota acutaesquamosa Fr. 



Epicrisis, 1836-38. 



Illustrations: Hard's Mushrooms, Fig. 38, p. 55 (from Michigan 

 plants i . 

 Gillet, Champignons de France, No. 109 

 Michael, Fuhrer f. Pilzfreunde, H [, No. L22 

 Ricken, Biatterpilze, PL 86, Fig. I (aa L. friesii). 



PILEUS 5 L5 nn. broad, soft, at firsl Bubhemispherical thei 

 vex-expanded, obtuse, even, al firsl covered by a Boft tawn 

 pale umber tomentum which usually breaks up into bro 

 rufous-brown, pointed, pyramidal, erect scales or warts, the tip* 

 which become blackish, are crowded and >\Arkrv on disk, the 

 showing the white flesh beneath, margin extending 

 FLESH white, moderately thick. GILLS wded, 



