PURPLE-BROWN-SPORED AGARICS. 



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The pileus is convex to expanded, sometimes broadly umbonate in 

 age, and usually with radiating wrinkles extending irregularly. On 

 the surface are silky or tomentose threads not much elevated from 

 the surface, and as the plant ages these are drawn into triangular 

 scales which are easily washed apart by the rains. The color is 

 tawny or light yellowish with intermediate shades, darker on the 

 umbo and becoming darker in age, sometimes umber colored, and 

 stained with black, especially after rains where the spores are washed 

 on the pileus. The flesh is tinged with light yellow, or tawny, or 



Figure 28. Hypholoma lacrymabundum (natural size). Cap and stem tawny or 

 light yellowish, with intermediate shades or shades of umber, surface with soft 

 floccose scales. Copyright. 



brown, soft, and easily broken. The gills are sinuate, adnate, some- 

 what ventricose, very rarely in abnormal specimens anastomosing 

 near the margin of the pileus, at first light yellowish, then shading 

 to umber and spotted with black and rusty brown as the spores 

 mature, easily breaking away from the stipe, whitish on the edge. 

 Drops of moisture sometimes are formed on the gills. Basidia abruptly 

 clavate, 30-35x10-12//. Cystidia hyaline, thin walled, projecting 

 above the hymenium 40 yw, and 14-1 5 // broad. Spores black, purple 

 tinged, broadly elliptical and somewhat curved, 9-1 1 x 7-^ ^. 



