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mossy ground during autumn. The fructifications are 1 to 2 in. 

 tall. The caps are % to 1 in. broad, campanulate, and whitish 

 with a brownish umbo. The gills are annexed, close, narrow, and 

 cinnamon-colored. The stipes are slender, hollow, and white. 

 Inocybe injelix. This species occurs throughout summer among 

 mosses or on bare soil. Its size agrees with that of /. bifida. The 

 campanulate pilei are floccosely squamulose and grayish brown or 



Fig. 62. Relationship of structural features in Amanita. A. Undifferentiated 

 "egg" B. Button stage, in which the gills are differentiating in the upper 

 portion. C. Opening of the pileus, showing at one side the ruptured uni- 

 versal veil and annulus. D. Expanded pileus, in section, with scales on the 

 pileus and volva surrounding the base of the stipe. Both structures are re- 

 mains of the universal veil. 



amber. The gills are adnexed, close, broad, ventricose, and rusty. 

 The stipes are equal, solid, silky fibrillose, whitish above and 

 brownish below. 



Hebeloma criistidijorme. In Hebeloma are placed ochre-spored 

 species with adnate gills and with a delicate fibrillose veil that is 

 present only on the young caps. All species are unwholesome. 

 Hebloma cmstulij orme appears on lawns in autumn. It is 2 to 3 

 in. tall, and the caps are equally broad. The caps are convex to 

 umbonate, tan-colored, darker over the center, and viscid. The 

 gills are adnate but rounded near the stem, and their edge is 

 white and irregular. The stipe is stuffed, enlarged below, and 

 w T hitish. It is reported that H. fastibile causes the same type of 

 symptoms as does Amanita miiscaria. 



