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shown in fig. 238. Finally, as shown in fig. 239, this veil is 

 ruptured by the expansion of the pileus, and it either clings 



Fig. 238. 

 Agaricus carapestris ; nearly mature plants, showing veil still stretched across the gill 



Fig. 239- 



Agaricus campestris ; under view of two plants just after rupture of veil, fragments of the 

 latter clinging both to margin of pileus and to stem. 



