CLASSIFICATION OP A.GARI 



which are dark Boccose threads which rorra ! h «• villose lurl 



;i pari <>i' the pileus. The gills are Bubdistanl with alternating 



.shorter ^ills, which often develop i ii\ so thai the main u'iiu 



appear quite distant. When growing from the underside of u I 



the pileus is a1 tached al its center. 



***rihiis membranous, tratna homogenous, not gelatine 



716. Pleurotus atropellitus I'k. 

 N. V. State Mus. Rep. 39, L886. 



PILEUS r>-l.~> nun. broad, Bmall, resupinaU <it first. \.-i\ thin. 

 membranous, tonghish, suborbicular, then obovate or reniform, con 

 vex to nearly plane, mllose-tomentulose, glabrescenl in front, 

 sile by a villose tubercle, ashy-gray to blackish, loidely-striati to 

 8ub8ulcate on margin when moist. FLESH homogeneous, with dark 

 hyphae on the surface of pileus. <MLLS close to subdistant, rela- 

 tively broad, short ones often narrow, concolor, radiating from the 

 stem-like villose l>ase. SPORES elliptical-oval, 7 !t \ I ■> micr., 

 smooth, white in mass. CYSTIDIA none. 



On decayed wood, low w Is. New Richmond, Ann Arbor. 



.March (21, L909), September, etc. Infrequent. 



This is similar to /'. applicatus, hut more flaccid, more definitely 

 striate on the pileus. ami with broadly elliptical Bpores Our plants 

 were paler than those described by Peck. The closeness of the gills 



varies in these small plants and makes a poor character to em 



phasize. It revives poorly when moistened as compared with /'. 



Q/ppUcatuS. Another small specie-, related to these tWO, i- P. " 



Schw. This has subglobose spores ami is plicate on the margin of 



the pileus. /'. siriuiuhis i'r. has very distanl gills, subglob 



;iml a pendulous, obconic, Btriate brown or ashy pileus. I have nor 



found these two in tin- state. 



Tricholoma I'r. 



(From the Creek thri.r, genitive trichos, a hair; ami fom< 

 fringe, referring to the remnants of the cortina in Borne spe< • 



White sporeil. Stem continuous with the pileUS, UnthOUi <in an 



nulus, spongy-fleshy i" fibrous, central; partial veil in t! 



;i Bliehl flbrillose or floccose cortina, or lacking. \"l\.i n< - ill- 



