CLASSIFICATION OF AGARICS 



thickish, white. GILLS adnato-decurrent, crowded, narrow, white. 

 STEM 2-5 cm. long, stuffed then hollow, equal, eccentric, slightly 

 curved <>r straight, glabrous, mycelioid al base. SPORES minute, 

 elliptical, 1-5x2-3 micr., Bmooth, white. ODOR slight, not farin 



<:<■< mis. 



(Dried: Gills yellowish-ochraceous ; pileus and Btem ochrac< 

 tan. i 



Gregarious. On logs in hemlock woods of aorthern Michigan; 

 frondose woods in the Bouth. Baj View, Detroit (Grosse Isle). 

 August-September. I nfrequent. 



The planl is white at firsl bul becomes ding] tan when old. II 

 is toughish and the flesh is rather thick as in P. lignatilis. Both 

 hick the thin, hygrophanous appearance of the nexl species. The 

 Btem is usually Longer than the width of the pileus. It lacks the 

 distinct farinaceous odor of P. lignatilis. 



705. Pleurotus fimbriatus Fr. var. regularis v;ir. nov. 



Sys. Myc, 1821. (As Clitocybe fimbriatus.) 



Illustration: Plate CXLIV of this Report. 



I'lLETS l'T. cm. broad, broadly convex, then plain', obtuse, de 

 pressed or Bubinfundibuliform, pseudohygrophanous, 1ni<il\»> white, 

 then opaque-pruinose, wavy, irregularly lobed or almost regular, 

 glabrous, even mi margin. FLESH thin, Blightly tough, white. 

 GILLS acuminately adnato-decurrent, narrow, crowded, thin, 

 whitish becoming yellowish in age. STEW 1-3 cm. long, 2-5 mm. 

 'hi.k. Blender, curved, toughish, equal, solid except a narrow 

 tubule, floccose at apex, pruinose or silky fibrillose, pallid. SPt >R 



minute, ovate, l x3 micr., si th, white CYSTIDIA none; Bterile 



cdls on edge of gills, Blender. ODOR Bomewhat farin 

 oily. TASTE Blightly bitterish-astringent 



On hemlock, elm, etc., logs in woods. Baj View, Ann A 

 June September. Infrequent. 



The pileus when moist 1ms the appearance of ;i del 



lucent, immature egg-shell; its margin is someti - com 



i-ivnh.se. The stem is at "firsl firmly Btuflfed then tubul 

 comparisons see notes on the preceding two spi 



