PART II 



Family AGARICACE^ 



Sub-Family Leucospor^ 



I. — HaplophyllcB 



Edge of gills sharp ; i.e. not longitudinally split or grooved. 



* MoLLES. — More or less fleshy, soft and soon decaying or shrivel- 

 ling (not corky, woody, nor rigid). 



I Ring, or volva , or both presoi/, or gills free. 



Volva and ring present. Gills usually free, rarely adnexed or 

 adnate. (Volva sometimes not evident round the base of the stem, 

 but loose patches on the cap prove its presence.) Amanita. 



Volva present, ring absent ; gills free. Amanitopsis. 



Ring present, volva absent ; gills free. (In some species the 

 ring is imperfect, and in a few the gills are slightly joined to the 

 stem.) Lepiota. 



Gills free ; volva and ring absent. Schulzeria. 



Gills attached to the stem ; ring present, volva absent. 



A rmillaria. 



If Gills adnexed or adnate ; ring and volva absent. 



Gills sinuate ; general structure fleshy, stem stout. TricJioloma. 



Gills very rigid and brittle ; general structure fleshy, stem stout. 



Russida. 



Cap slender, usually striate ; edge of cap straight and pressed 

 close to the stem when young. Mycena. 



Cap rather fleshy, soon becoming almost plane, edge of cap in- 

 curved when young ; stem cartilaginous outside. Collybia. 



Entire fungus tough, drying up and reviving when moistened ; 

 gifls often connected by veins. Marasmius. 



fff Gills decurrent. 



Substance of flesh exuding milk when broken. (In some species 

 the gills are adnate.) Lactariiis. 



Gills thick at the base, edge sharp, rather waxy, often branched. 

 Cap often l^'grophanous. (In some species the gills are adnate or 

 even free.) Hygrophorns. 



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