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length breaking >>\> into oppressed red scales and rimose. PLKS11 

 while, thin. GILLS free, narrow, tapering toward stein, crowded 

 ;m first, less bo after expansion, white, edge ininutelj floccuh 

 STEM I 9 fin. long, 3-8 mm. thick, tapering slightl} upward or 

 clavate a1 base, Btuflfed then hollow, even, easily splitting length 

 wise, siik\ fibrillose or glabrous. ANMIJ s well-developed, mem 

 branous, persistent, edge thickisb and often tinged red. si'ui; - 

 '.i \ 5 micr., but variable, often larger, narrow elliptical, apiculate; 

 CYSTIDIA on edge of gills abou1 36x6 micr. 



(Dried: Color of cap red, gills dingj white, stem pale fuscous.) 

 Scattered or singly. on the ground .him mil; decaying leaves, mixed 

 or hardwood forests. Ann Arbor, Detroit, Ne^ Richmond. August 

 September. I nfrequent. 



682. Lepiota cristata Fr. (Edibi 

 Byst. Mvc.. L821. 



Illustrations: Atkinson, Mushrooms, Pig. 83, p. 81, L900. 

 Gillet, Champignons de France, No. 117. 

 Patouillard, Tab. Analyt., No. 504. 

 Kick. mi. Blatterpilze, PL 84, Pig. 3. 

 Cooke, 111.. 29. 

 Plate CXXX1 of this Report. 



PILEUS 1.5-4 cm. broad, ilrin. ovate then campanulate-conves or 

 expanded, obtuse or umbonate, cuticle at first continuous, and • - n - 

 tirely 'lull reddish or reddish-brown, then broken into small < 

 centric reddish-brown scales except the darker umbo, the cracks 



white, margin often de led of cuticle. FLESH white, thin. 



GILLS free, rather close, narrow to Bubventrieose, white, edge 

 minutely crenulate. STEM 3-5 cm. long, 2-5 nun. thick, Blender, 

 equal, hollow or Btuflfed with loose pith, glabrous or silk} tibrillo.se 

 below ring, whitisb or tinged dingy lavender, pinkish within. A \ 

 Ml. is white, siinill. son n broken and deciduous. SPORES -"in.' 

 what wedge-shaped, or angular, Bometimes irregularlj fusiform to 

 oblong, depending on the view, white, 6-7x3 I micr. OP< 

 rather disagreeable. 



(Dried: Stem rufescent, i>ilenv brownish to alutaceous 

 Gregarious. En grassj places or on the ground in low woods 

 often on lawns. Marquette, Ann Arbor, Detroit, Hough tot 

 Richmond, etc. July-October. Common. 

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