No. 15.] HYMENIALES OF CONNECTICUT. JC 



GALERA Fr. 



Plants growing- in moss; gills connected by veins. . . . 



G. hypnorum 

 Plants not in moss ; gills unconnected G. tenera 



PLUTEUS Fr. 

 Surface of cap in young plants covered with silky fibrils i 

 Surface oi cap in young plants smooth or slightlv 

 wrinkled P. admirahilis 



1. Plants large ; cap 4 to 6 inches in diameter, fleshy 2 



Plants small 3 



2. Cap covered with a dense, dark brown tomentum in 



center, broken into granules near margin ; gills white, 



then flesh-color P. granulans 



Cap fibrillose, becoming smooth at disk; gills white, 



then flesh-color P. cen'inus 



Cap fibrillose, becoming wrinkled at disk; gills dark 



brown, fringed or toothed on the margins. . . .P. umhrosns 



3. Surface of cap wrinkled and darker at disk; stem 



white, tinged with blue or green, fibrillose P. salicinns 



Surface of cap not wrinkled 4 



4. Stem smooth P. longistriatus 



Stem covered with silky fibrils P. tomeutosidus 



ENTOLOMA Fr. 



Stem solid i 



Stem hollow 2 



1. Cap large, 4 to 6 inches broad ; flesh white E. grande 



Cap small, i to 2 inches broad; flesh pink E. Grayanum 



2. Cap with a distinct, central elevation (umbonate) E. strictius 

 Cap not umbonate E. rhodopoUum 



CLITOPILUS Fr. 



Gills decurrent ^ 



Gills squarely joined to the stem, or slightly decurrent 5 



1, Gills somewhat forked ; taste very bitter. .€. novchoraccnsis 

 Gills not forked ; taste mild 2 



2. Cap covered with a gray powder or bloom C. prnnulus 



Cap not covered with powder 3 



