Studies and Illustrations of Mushrooms: I. 



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the fibrils on the surface are 

 brownish. In one form of 

 the plant the triangular scales 

 are dark brown, and give it 

 a quite different aspect. 

 This dark scaly form some- 

 times appears early in the 

 spring. 



If we note the position of 

 the gills carefully, as we can 

 by referring to the photo- 

 graph (represented in figure 

 96) of the under side of the 

 pileus, it will be seen that 

 they do not quite reach the 

 stem and are rounded at llie 

 inner end. They are thus 

 only attached by their upper 

 edges to the under surface 

 of the pileus. Between the 



94. — Agaricits caiiipcslns. J'lant in Jiatuiai 

 position just after rupture of ved^ shoioing 

 tendency to double annulus on the stem, 

 Foitions of the veil also dripping from 

 viargi)i of pileus. 



Qc. — Agariciis campestris. Plant shoiving loose fibrils on surface of 

 pileus draivn into triangular scales. 



