CLASSIFICATION OP AOARK 



/'//- us mill shm usually brown or dark colored, noi constantly 



gray. 



849. Mycena galericulata I >. Kdible 



Syst. .m \ col., 1821 i in pari i. 



Ilhisi rat inns : Fries, rcones, PI. HO, Pig. _' (var 

 Cooke, 111.. PI. 222 and PI. 223 I var.). 

 Gillet, Champignons rle France, No. K52. 

 Patouillard, Tab. Analj i.. No. 21 I and No. -".17. 

 Bard, Mushrooms, PI. Hi. Pig. 89, p. 121. 

 Marshall, The Mushroom Book, PL 7. op. p. 55. 

 Michael, Fuhrer f. Pilzfreunde, III. No. 92. 

 Clements, .Minnesota Mushrooms, Fig. 17. p. 30, L910. 

 Moffatt, Nat. Bist. Surv. Chicago Acad, of Sci.. Bull. 7. PL I. 



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PILEUS 2 I cm. broad, campanulate or obtusely conic-campanu 

 late, ambonate, striaU or subsulcate to umbo, glabrous, buj} •m 

 margin, shading to brown or umber <>n umbo, ashy white and bud 

 sinning when old, often with brown <>r blackisb ferruginous -tains. 

 FLESH thin, toughish, whitish. GILLS adnatt or arcuate-adnate, 

 uncinate, moderately broad, subdistant, dull white, usually ti,nii>f 

 with flesh color in age, often stained when old, edge entire or crenu- 

 late-eroded, interspaces usually venose. STEM I l<> cm. I * > m ir or 

 longer, L-3 nun. thick, tough, very tougb in age, cartilaginous, hollow, 

 i rrn or only innately striatulate, flexuous, sometimes twisted, from 

 pallid to rufous-brown or ferruginous-stained below, paler to whit 

 ish at apex, glabrous and shining, base often connate with I 

 ruginous or dingy-yellow strigose hairs, and rooting. SPORES 



S-9 \ 5-6 micr., broadly-elliptical when mature, si th, white. 



immature spores with large globule simulating globular Bpores 

 BASIDIA L-spored, with long and stoul sterigmata. CYSTIDIA 

 none. ODOR none or slightly farinaceous. 



Verv caespitose on rotten wood, old logs, stumps, e ol all 

 kimis of t rees. 



Throughout the State. March November. (Earliesl record 

 Manh !•">: latest. November 2.) Wn common. 



Reported throughout North America, Europe, Tasmania, 

 The weather ami locality bring about much variation in thin sjiecies*, 

 especially as to Color and texture. The essential characters seem 

 in lie ihe lack of cystidia, the absence of a citrous odor, the caespi 

 lose rufous-brown stems, the sulcate-striate cap, which is often 



