CLASSIFICATION OF AG IRICS M7 



glabrous, bygrophanous, brick red or reddish-brown and radiati 

 striate when moist, paler and Bilkj when <lr.\. l'l.i:sn membrana 

 (•cons. GILLS decurrent, narrow, subdistant, tinged with flesh 

 color then gilvus. STEM 2-3 cm. long, 2 mm. thick, equal, tongh, 

 glabrous, even, -niiicii or hollow, pallid rufescent. SPOKEN ■ ■. ml, 

 bi ill. white, 6-8x5 raicr. (Patouillard.) 



"On the ground, roadsides, etc." Bast Lansing, on the cam] 

 Reported by Longj ea t\ 



Evidently rare. Peck says he round it bul once. Not much 

 liance can be placed on the spore-measurements given; Stevenson 

 quotes three differenl sizes, one of which is Followed i»\ Saccardo. 

 The pileus is said bj Pries t<> fade strongly, even to become whitish. 

 Some think thai 0. muralis Pr. and 0. hepatica Pr. are i" i>e con 

 Bidered as varieties of 0. pyxidata. (See Barbier, Bull. I. 8o< Slyc. 

 de Prance, Vol. XX, i». L05, 1904. i 



874. Omphalia rugosodisca Pk. 

 \. v. State Mus. Rep. l'<;, 1874. 



PILE1 S l 2.5 cm. broad, broadly convex or nearly plane, de 

 pressed or umbilicate, sometimes obtuse or slightly umbonate, 

 rugose, hygrophanous, watery cinnamon-brown and striatulate 

 (moist), paler when dry. PLESB thin. GILLS short-decurrent, 

 narrow, close, whitish. STEM -.', cm. long, I :' mm. thick, gla 

 brous, hollow, cartilaginous, concolor, paler al apex. SPORES 

 elliptical, 6-7 s t 5 micr., smooth, white. 



< >n decaying prostrate trunks of hemlock. Baj View. July. 



Known by the rugose cap, the brown color and the fact that everj 

 part of the planl emits ;i watery juice when cul or bruised. It 



seems to be limited '<• decaying \\ I of coniferous trees. Peck 



referred this species to Collybia in the 31s1 New $*ork Museum Re 

 port, Imii later returned it to Omphalia. Saccardo placed it in t 1m- 

 genus Mycena without giving any reason for doing so. At tii 

 the odor is s;ii<l to be slightly of radish. 

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