Fungi with Gills 



streaked with pale brown. Brittle, pithy in the centre when 



mature. 3-6 inches long. 



Spores Pink, with suggestions of yellow; salmon colour. 

 Flesh White, tasteless. 

 Time Early in the season, May. 

 Habitat Mixed woods, on and around old stumps. New Jersey. 



GENUS ENTOLOMA 



The members of this genus have pink spores, and the 

 lamellae attached to the stem, or with a notch near the junction 

 of gill and stem. The stem is fleshy, and not tough and hard as 

 in Leptonia and Nolanea, genera with pink spores and adnate 

 or sinuate lamellae. There are some twelve species in this genus, 

 none of which have any economic interest, while at least four are 

 dangerous. 



GENUS ECCILIA 



The members of the genus Eccilia have neither volva nor 

 annulus. The gills grow downward on the stem, the spores are 

 pink, and the stems have a hard, tough rind, not fleshy as in 

 Clitopilus. There are three species known in America. 



GENUS YOLVARIA 



The members of the genus Volvaria are fleshy fungi, soon 

 becoming putrescent. The spores are salmon colour. A volva 

 is present, but no annulus. Distinguished from Amanitopsis by 

 having salmon-coloured spores instead of white. 



GENUS CLITOPILUS 



The members of this group have neither volva nor annu- 

 lus. The gills grow downward on the stem, the spores are 

 pink, and the stem is fleshy, without a hard and tough rind as 

 in Eccilia. There are fourteen American species, of which at 

 least two species are edible. 



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