KEY TO AGARICALES 



ff Margin of pileus straight, at first adpressed 



to the stem. 



Spores white 



Spores pink 



Spores ochraceous, or ferruginous 



Spores purple, or fuscous 



Spores black, or blackish 

 **Gills decurrent. 



Spores white 



Spores pink 



Spores ochraceous, or ferruginous 



D . Pileus confluent with the excentric, or lateral 

 stem, dimidiate, sessile, or resupinate. 

 Spores white, gill edge entire 

 Spores white, gill edge longitudinally split 

 Spores pink 

 Spores ochraceous. 



II. Receptacle fleshy, trama vesiculose and 

 traversed by lacticiferous vessels. Spores 

 white, or yellow. 



Latex watery, uncoloured 



Latex milk-white, or coloured, rarely like) 



serum ) 



III. Receptacle membranaceous, or fleshy mem- 

 branaceous, fragile, rapidly putrescent, or 

 shrivelling up. 



Spores ochraceous, or ferruginous 



Spores black, or blackish fuscous. Gills) 



auto-digested from below upwards / 



IV. Receptacle membranaceous, tough, reviving 

 with moisture, not putrescent. 



Spores white. 



*Pileus with a thin, unspecialized cellular) 

 pellicle > 



**Pileus with a thick, cellular pellicle. 



Cells of the pellicle upright, echinulate, or) Androsaceus. 

 verrucose J (Marasmius p.p.) 



Cells of the pellicle decumbent, very long,) n // 

 fibrillose I P 



Mycena. 



Nolanea. 



Galera. 



Psathyra. 



Psathyrdla. 



OmpMia. 



Ectilia. 



Tubaria. 



Pleurotus. 

 Schizophyllum. 

 Claudopus. 

 Crepidotus. 



Russula. 

 T 

 Latanus ' 



Bolbitius. 

 Coprinus. 



