CLASSIFICATION OP AOARK 



irregular, pun white, even, silky. FLESH submembi uus. 



GILLS decurrent, narrow, crowded, white. STEM - 16 mm. lo 

 .slmrt, Btuffed, subvillose, white. SPORES 6 \ _' micr. 

 Afassee I ; 6x4 5 micr. i I'k. i 



"Gregarious, in mossy, grassj places on the ground. U 

 \<-.w ea in \\ oods -Longyear. I 



"Variable, often flexuous and eccentric, commonly small, 

 hygrophanous, yellowish on drying, stem woollj al l< 

 pileus sdmetimes often an inch broad." 



Reported by Longyear. Greenville. July. Rare 



870. Omphalia scyphiformis I > 



Epicrisis, 1836. 



[llustration: Fries, [cones, PI. 75, Fig. 3. 



PILEUS 5-9 mm. broad, convex, then umbilicate or infundibuli 

 form, glabrous, Bometimes silky, dull white, margin obsoletely 

 striatulate. FLESH mrinhranaceous. GILLS decurrent, thin, »<ir 

 rowly triangular, whitish, close, moderately broad in middle, atten 

 uate at ends, edge entire, trams of interwoven hyphae. STEM l 5 

 2.5 cm. long, equal, even, Bomewhal hollow, whitish, glabrous "t- 

 loosely pubescent by flexuous longish hairs, base attached to n 

 by radiating hairs. SPORES •'• 7 \ 3.5 l micr., ovate or pip-shaped, 

 pointed at one end, smooth, white. CYSTIDLA cone. < » l ►< » I ; cone. 



Gregarious on mosses or on moisl earth. Ann Arbor. August. 

 Rare. 



This species is closely related i" 0. scyphoides. It differs in the 

 «lii II white i nihil I us i color of the whole plant, whereas '/ fcyphnidm 

 is snid to be pure white (candidus) ; the gills are ool as narron 

 and crowded ns in that species, and probably the spores ^i' 

 Our plants approached I/, scyphoides in the pubescence toward 

 ihe base of the stem, which Fries Bays is glabrous. On mom the 

 silkv webby mycelium Bometimes spreads Borne distant 



871. Omphalia olivaria Pk. 

 N. V. State Mnv Rep. 25, L873. 



PILEUS 6 l"' mm. broad, convex, Bubclavate, with decurved mar 

 gin, deeply umbilicate, glabrous, }><ii< yellowish t" nltvi ren 



or obscurely striatulate. FLE8H thin. GILLS la irrent, 



