644 THE AGARICACEAE OF MICHIGAN 



on umbo often continuous. FLESH thick, white. GILLS free, 

 remote from stem, broad anteriorly, narrowed behind, thin, close, 

 white or tinged pink, brownish in age, edge flocculose. STEM 15- 

 30 cm. long, cylindrical or tapering upward from a bulb, G-12 mm. 

 thick above, apex sunk deep into the flesh of the pileus as into a 

 socket, hollow or stuffed with delicate long fibrils, surface layer 

 breaking up into small brownish scales, or furfuraceous so as to ap- 

 pear variegated, white beneath and within. AXXULUS movable, 

 thick, formed of the firm, membranous veil which breaks away early, 

 its outer and lower surface covered with small brown scales, repre- 

 senting a continuation of the cuticle of the pileus at a very early 

 state. SPORES 14-18x9-12 micr., elliptical, smooth, white; no 

 cystidia found. Sterile cells on edge of gills, numerous, 35-45 x 10- 

 15 micr., subcylindrical. 



(Dried: Pileus buff with fuscous scales, stem pale fuscous, gills 

 dingy-buff.) 



Solitary or gregarious. Ou the ground, in meadows, pastures, 

 open woods, or preferably in pastured clearing's. August. Septem- 

 ber, October. Throughout the State. Edible. 



Its long stem, movable annulus and shaggy, spotted cap, distin- 

 guish it from all others. Its height is often surprising, sometimes 

 reaching a foot and a half, with a cap six to ten inches broad. Its 

 cap is delicious, when after removing the scales, it is fried in butter. 

 Its distribution is world-wide. 



687. Lepiota morgani Pk. (Poisonous) 



Botanical Gazette, Vol. 4, 1879. 



Illustrations: Hard, Mushrooms, 1908, PI. VII, Fig. 35, p. 50. 

 Mcllvaine, Amer. Mushrooms, 1900, PI. XIV. p. 30. 

 Plates ( XXXIII and CXXXIV of this Report. 



PILEUS 10-20 em. broad, at first globose then convex and ex- 

 panded, cuticle at first continuous, buff to pale umber, soon broken 

 up except on disk, into irregular scales or patches, which are 

 drawn apart and disappear in part. FLESH thick, firm, white. 

 <:IU,S free, remote (4-5 mm.) from stem, close, rather broad, 

 veniricose. at first white thai changing to dull (/,■<>,„. STEM stout, 

 10-20 cm. long. 1-2 cm. thick above. 2-4 cm. at base, tapering upward 

 from a clavate base, stuffed with fibrils, hard and firm, glabrous, 

 whitish or grayish-white to pale "umber. ANNULUS thick, ///or- 



