CLASSIFICATION OF A.GARK 

 672. Lepiota asperula At k. 



Atkinson, Mushrooms, p. 82, L900. 

 [llustratioD : [bid, PI. 26, Pig. 84, p. 82. 



PILEUS 1-4.5 i'ii i . broad, campanulate-convex to expanded, ob 

 tuse, "hair-brown to olive-brown" or ochraceous-brown, cuticle 

 breaking up into erect, rather pointed, blackish-brown warts, more 

 Dumerous on disk, sometimes subconcentrically rimosc, not Btri 

 FLESH white, thickish, scissile, rather fragile. GILLS free, rather 

 aarrow to medium width, crowded, white becoming dingy, n<>f 

 forked, edge minutely eroded. STEM '_' 6 cm. long, m; nun. thick, 

 cylindrical above the bulbous base, smile. I by fibrils, then hollow, 

 covered a1 first by the loose, silky or fibrillose veil which collapws 

 at the pileus and terminates on the Btem by an evanescenl .\\ 

 NULUS, glabrous or fibrillose above annulus, below annulus some- 

 times minutely brown-squamulose. 8PORE8 minute, 1-5x2 

 micr., oblong, smooth, white. Basidia 4-spored; sterigmata Blender. 

 No cystidia. ODOR and TASTE no1 marked. 



(Dried: Like /,. acutaesquamosa and /-. friesii.) 



Gregarious. Hemlock or mixed woods, on the ground among 

 debris. Bay View, New Richmond. August-September. Infre- 

 quent. 



Differs from L. acutaesquamosa in minute spores, and smaller 

 si/.e. Probably often confused with that specif- and difficult ol 

 separation from it. The veil is sometimes quite copious and cob- 

 webby. 



673. Lepiota acerina Pk. 

 X. V. Mus. Rep. 51, p. 283, L898. 



PILEUS L-2.5 cm. broad, convex then expanded, covered with 

 tawny or pale rufous-brown, appressed, fibrillose or fioccos les, 



darker and erect and pointed on the disk, margin even. FLESD 

 thin, white. GILLS free, close, thin, rather broad, white or whitish, 

 edge minutely fimbriate. STEW _' I em. long, 1.5-4 mm. thi< 

 stuffed to hollow, equal or slightly bulbous, covered ap to the ob- 

 solete ANNULUS i\\ small, dark, fibrillose Bcales colored like tl 

 of pileus. SPORES 8-11 micr. Ion-. :: I micr. wide, obliqm 

 apiculate and truncate at one end. narrowed toward 

 smooth, white; sterile cells on <■<]-*■ of gills clava 



