Leucosporse 



* Gills broad, rather distant. Coiiybia. 

 ** Gills narrow, crowded. 



VESTIPEDES (clothed-stemmed). Page 118. 



Stem thin, equal, hollow or with a pith, even, velvety, downy or cov- 

 ered with a bloom. 



* Gills broad, rather distant. 



* Gills very narrow, closely crowded. 



IWEVIPEDES (even-stemmed). Page 120. 



Stem thin, equal, hollow, naked, smooth except the base appar- 

 ently not striate, but some species are minutely striate under a lens. 



* Gills broad, lax, usually more or less distant. 

 ** Gills narrow, crowded. 



Series B. GILLS BECOMING GRAY. HYGROPHANOUS. 



TEPHROPHAN/E. Page . 



Color brownish becoming gray. Allied to the last section of Tricho- 

 loma and Clitocybe, but distinguished from them by the cartilaginous 

 stem. 



Some are strong scented. None known to be edible. 



STRI^E'PEDES. 

 * Gills broad, rather distant. 



C. radica'ta Relh. radix, a root. (Plate XXIX, p. 112.) Pileus 

 i >2-4 in. across, from convex to nearly plane, broadly umbonate, fre- 

 quently wrinkled toward and at the umbo, glutinous when moist. Color 

 variable, usually brown in grayish shades, from dark to almost white. 

 Flesh thin, white, elastic. Gills white, thick, tough, distant, ventricose, 

 adnexed, rounded or notched behind like Tricholoma, sometimes with 

 a decurrent tooth. Stem 4-8 in. long, 3-5 lines thick, smooth, firm, 

 same color as pileus, tapering upward, becoming vertically striate or 

 grooved, often twisted, ending in a long, tapering, pointed root deeply 

 planted in the earth. 



Spores elliptical, 14-15x8-9/4 Massee; IIXI//A W.G.S.; nxp/x, W. 

 P.; 16-17x10-1 ip. B, 



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