Classification OF AGARK 



Bcalea terminating in the obsolete A.NNULUS, pruinose and whit 

 ish ;ii apex." SPORES minute, oblong-elliptical, obscurelj curved, 

 smooth, white, i 5.5 s •". micr. 



i Dried: Cap pale fulvous, stem paler with Bcattered flo< 

 Bquamules. i 



Gregarious. <>n moss growing over an old hemlock Log. Mar 

 quette. September. Rare. 



The spores are aol ovale as in /.. granulosa, and the adnexed 

 ^ills ami color, etc., separate it from /,. rugoso reticulata. The dried 

 specimens lack the rich tints of the others of this group. 



679. Lepiota pusillomyces Pk. 



N. V. Miis. Rep. 28, p. is. L876. 

 Illustration: [bid, Plate I. Pigs. L-3. 



PILEUS is nun. broad, thin, convex, obtuse, furfuraceous or 

 covered with minute granular floccules, white or nearly so. re m a ins 

 of veil clinging in granular floes t Ige of pileus. TKA.MA of 



pileUS composed of vesicular cells, pulvet uleiice on surface also Ol 



thin-walled globular cells. GILLS broad, free, ventricose, i ler- 



ately .lose, white. STEM L-3 cm. long, L-2 mm. thick, slender, 

 equal, smiled with fibrils, rufescenl beneath the white mealh 

 which terminates at the obsolete A.NNULUS. SPORES elliptic- 

 oblong, 1-5x2.5-3 micr., si th, white. 



Single and scattered. On rich soil in woods. Ann Arbor, Bay 

 View. August, [nfrequent. 



'Phis is close to /,. seminuda of Europe, and may I"- the same, on- 

 Less the microscopic characters are shown to be different Patouil- 

 lard figures the spores of /.. seminuda more ovate then elliptical, 

 hut other author- give the latter shape. This is a delicate Lepiota 

 and approaches L. oristatatellus Pk. which is distinguished bj the 

 pinkish tinge usually present on the pileus, and the glabrous stem. 



