CHAPTER III. 



THE ROSY-SPORED AGARICS. 



The spores of this series are of great variety of color, including rosy, pink, 

 salmon-color, flesh-color, or reddish. In Pluteus, Volvaria, and most of Clitopilus, 

 the spores are regular in shape, as in the white-spored series ; in the other genera 

 they are generally irregular and angular. There are not so many genera as in the 

 other series and fewer edible species. 



Pluteus. Fr. 



Pluteus means a shed, referring to the sheds used to make a cover for be- 

 siegers at their work, that they might be screened from the missiles of the enemy. 



They have no volva, no ring on the stem. Gills are free from the stem, white 

 at first then flesh-color. 



Figure 189. Pluteus cervinus. 



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