CLASSIFICATION OP A.OARK 



685. Lepiota cristatatellus Pk. 

 N. V. State Mus. Rep. 31, p. 31, L879. 



PILE1 rs 5-8 mill, broad, Boft, oval then convex, covered by nun 

 ate granular-mealiness, at first tinged pink all over, then white with 

 pinkish disk, margin mealy. GILLS free, white, medium broad, 

 rounded behind, Bubventricose, subdistant. STEM 2-3 cm. long, 

 l nini. thick, slender, equal, hollow or Btuffed with fibrils, whitish, 

 Bubglabrous below the evanescent ANNULUS, pruinose above 

 SPORES minute, Bubelliptical, 1-5x3 micr., b »ili. white. 



Scattered. In low, moist woods, on mosses, etc. Ann Arbor, 

 Bay View, New Richmond. September. Frequent. 



A small Lepiota, near J,, pusillomyces, from which the pink of 

 the <ap ami the white stem seem to distinguish it bo thai the two 

 are quite easily recognized in the field. L. cristatellus is also Baid 

 to have narrower gills, and its stem is usually glabrous, while /.. 

 pusillomyces lias broad gills and a mealy stem below the annulus. 



Section VII. Proccrur. Pileus thick and fleshy, the cuticle com- 

 monly broken into large scales (continuous in />. naucina in m 

 cases); annulus thick, mostly movable. 



686. Lepiota procera IV. (Kiuiu.i 



Syst -My.-.. L821. 



Illustrations: Atkinson, Mushrooms, PI. 25, Fig. 81, p. 

 Peck, N. Y. State Mus. Rep. 18, PI. L8, L896 

 Hard. Mushrooms. PI. VI. Fig. 32, p. 16. 

 I' iceman, Minn. Plant Diseases. Fig. L8, p. 39, L905. 

 Mdlv.iitie. Amer. Fungi, PI. XIII, p. 34. 

 Fries, Sverig. atl. u. gift. Svamp., PI. 3. 

 Michael, Fflhrer f. Pilzfreunde, No. 53. 

 Gillet, Champignons de France, No. 129. 

 Ricken, Blatterpilze, PI. 83, Fig. l. 

 Plate CXXXI1 of this Report. 



PILEUS 8-15 cm. broad, elliptic-ovate before opening, then cam 

 p.inulate come\ to Bubexpanded, umbonate, ai flrsf covered with .i 

 reddish brown or amber-brown cuticle, which breaks up into 

 brown scales or patches during expansion of pileus, with Bmaller 

 flocci.se scales between and exposing the white flesh beneath, cuticle 



