CLASSIFICATION OF AGAR] 



( >m muss. Jackson < Jounty. J one. 



Reported by Longyear. h is unknown to me. It Is >-. » i • i t<> 

 mi burned, mossy ground like 0, fibula, "which ii resembles in color, 

 inn from which ii maj easily be distinguished by its much larger 

 size, more robusl habit and venose intersp the spores also are 



larger than in thai species." 



883. Omphalia campanella FY. 

 Syst. Myc, L821. 



Illustrations: Cooke, III.. PI. 273. 



Michael, Piihrer t'. Pilzfreunde, Vol. III. No. ''.7 (as 0. fra- 

 il it is \. 



Hard. Mushrooms, PI. IT. p. L31. 



White, Conn. State Geol. & Nat. Hist. Surv., Bull. 3, PL 



L6, p. 36. 

 Murrill, Mycologia, Vol. I. PI. 8, Pig. LO. 

 Plate CLXXII of this Report. 



PILEUS 8-22 mm. broad., convex-campanulate, expanded, umbUi 

 rate, glabrous, Btriatulate to the umbilicus, dull orang< yellow or 

 tinged reddish, watery when moist, paler when dry. FLESH thin, 

 membranaceous, yellow. GILLS adnate <lecurrent to deeply decur- 

 rent, arcuate, thick, very veiny, aarrow, tapering to front, subdis 

 taut to distant, prulnose. STEM ll cm. Long, i mm. or Less in 

 thickness, horny-cartilaginous, minutely tubular, curved or straight, 

 even, dark minus bay to date brown, yellowish above, concolor with- 

 in, glabrous above, pruinose elsewhere and with fulvous strigt 

 hairs at the slightly thickened base. SPORES oblong, 6-7.5x3 

 micr., smooth, white. CYSTIDIA widely scattered on Bides of 

 gills, more abundanl on the edge, snbcylindrical or sublanceol 

 with obtuse apex, 50-55 micr. long. BASIDLA 30-32 j I" micr. 

 < H h HI mild. In dense and spreading clusters on hemlock and pine 

 logs, stumps, etc.; also on tamarack lo imps or their remains 



in the southern pari of the State; sometimes on debris on the ground. 



Throughout the State; collected from Detroit to [ale Royale In 

 Lake Superior. June-November. (Earliesl collection May I 

 Common on cdniferous w 1. 



The Bell-omphalia is a striking and easily recognised plant be 

 cause of its habit of forming extensive clusters, b ind by 



its horny stem and veined gills. In the non-coniferous - it 



