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the stem. In the shaggy-mane the veil does not form a thin, ex- 

 panded curtain. It is really an annular outer layer of the button 

 lying between the margin of the cap and the base of the stem. It 

 becomes free from the stem. As the stem elongates more rapidly 

 than the cap, the latter is lifted up away from the base of the stem. 



Sometimes the free 

 collar around the 

 still loosely ad- 

 superficial layer of 

 or it remains 

 more or less 

 to the marg 

 of the pileus 



ring is left as a 

 base of the stem, 

 herent to the 



the same, 



for a time 

 adherent 



as shown in the plant at 

 It is often lifted higher 

 becomes free from the 

 dangling somewhere on 

 break and fall down on 

 stances it may remain 

 the margin of the pileus 

 as the pileus in age ex- 

 such cases one often 

 to discover it clinging 

 the cap. It is interest- 

 of the plants at this 

 can be made by split- 

 lengthwise through the 

 knife, as shown in Fig. 

 at the right hand, the 

 plainly seen running 

 stem. The gills form 

 plant, for they are very 



the left hand in Fig. 33. 

 up on the stem before it 

 cap, and is then left 

 the stem, or it may 

 the sod. In other in- 

 quite firmly adherent to 

 so that it breaks apart 

 pands somewhat. In 

 searches for some time 

 as a sterile margin of 

 ng to observe a section 

 stage. These sections 

 ting the pileus and stem 

 middle line with a sharp 

 35. Here, in the plant 

 *' cord " of mycelium is 

 hollow 



Figure ^j. Coprinus 

 comatus, later stage of 

 deliquescence, pileus thrOUSh the 

 becoming more ex- ^ 



panded (natural size), a large portion of the 

 broad and lie closely 

 packed side by side. They are nowhere attached to the stem, but 

 at the upper end round off to the cap, leaving a well defined space 

 between their ends and the stem. The cap, while it is rather thick 

 at the center, i. e., where it joins the stem, becomes comparatively 

 thin where it spreads out over the gills. At this age of the plant 



