CLASSIFICATION OF AOARIl 



mostly unicolorous, margin appendiculate. FLESE thick, white. 

 GILLS adnate, sometimes subdecurrent, crowded, rather narrow, 

 whitish, edge entire. STEM I 7 cm. long, 3 I mm. thick, equal or 

 tapering upward, solid, peronate with cinnamon or reddish-brown 

 floccose scales, terminating in an incompleh or obsoleU asm u - 

 pallid above, white-mycelioid a1 base. SPORES 1-5.5x3 micr., 

 smooth, ovoid, apiculate. OD< >B do1 noticed. 



(Dried: Pileua pale brick-red, gills alutaceous, Btem white-m] 



celioid a1 bases I 



Gregarious. On musses, low woods of white birch in northern 

 Michigan, elm, etc., In south. Ann Arbor, Marquette. Augusl 

 September. Infrequent. 



This species resembles /.. granulosa in color, etc., bu1 differs in 

 its slender stem and rugose pileus; it approaches L. granosa in 

 pileua characters bu1 is small and the annulus is rarely persistent 

 h differs from /.. amianthina in its lack of an umbo, and it- -mail 



spores. 



676. Lepiota adnatifolia Pk. 



N. Y. State Mus* BuU. 54, p. 947, L902. 



PILEUS 2.5 cm. broad, broadly convex, granulose t<» wartj or 

 scaly <>n disk, dark ferruginous-red, not umbonate, even, margin ap- 

 pendiculate. FLESH white. <ilU,s adnate, dose, aarrow, thin, 

 whitish, edge entire. STEM 2-4 cm. long, Mi mm. thick above, 

 tapering upward from a clavate base, solid, peronate by reddish or 

 whitish squamules, and terminating in an evanescenl annulus, 

 apex white or tinged pink. SPORES minute. 5-5.5x2.5-3 micr., 

 oval-oblong, slightly curved in one dew. CYSTIDIA verj slender, 

 hyaline, aboul 50 micr. long, •". micr. thick, subcylindrical, apex 

 capped by conical covering, sometimes infrequent or entirely lack- 

 ing, on edge and sides of .uills. ODOB slight. 



on debris or decayed logs in woods of hemlock, maple, etc. Sew 

 Richmond, Ann Arbor. September-October. Rare. 



I»iilers from /,. amianthina and /.. granulosa in the presence of 

 cystidia and lack of an umbo, and by it- color. The Bpores are 

 Bmaller than given by Peck. The main pan of the cap i- .-.,\. 

 closely with appressed, Hat. tomentose warts. 



