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species. In the shaggy-mane the veil does not form a thin 

 expanded curtain as in the three species just enumerated. It 

 is really an annular outer layer of the button lying between the 



margin of the 

 base of the stem, 

 from the stem, 

 gates more rap- 

 pileus, the latter 

 u p away ■ 

 base of the 

 Sometimes 

 the free 



pileus and the 



It becomes free 



Asthestemelon- 



idly than the 



i s lifted 



from the 



% stem. 



annulus is left as a 



of the stem, still 



superficial 1 a yer of 



for a time more or 



margin o f the pileus 



at the left hand in 



lifted higher up on 



comes free from the 



dangling somewhere 



break and fall down 



instances it may re- 



herentto the margin 



breaks apart as the 



somewhat. In such 



for some time to dis- 



sterile margin of the 



its outer texture re- 



ure of the pileus. 



serve a section of the plants at this stage. 



made by splitting the pileus and stem lengthwise through the 



middle line with a sharp knife as shown in figure 88. Here, in 



90. — Coprintis com- 

 atus, later stage of dili- 

 quescence, ptleus becom- 

 ing more expanded. 

 (Natural size). 



collar around the base 

 loosely adherent to the 

 the same, or it remains 

 less adherent to the 

 as shown in the plant 

 figure 85. It is often 

 the stem before it be- 

 pileus, and is then left 

 on the stem, or it may 

 on the sod. In other 

 main quite firmly ad- 

 of the pileus so that it 

 pileus in age expands 

 cases one often searches 

 cover it clinging as a 

 pileus, so closely does 

 semble the outer text- 

 It is interesting to ob- 

 These sections can be 



