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preceding genus, most of the species are terrestrial. They have 

 been placed in two primary divisions, Exannulata and Subannulata. 

 Our species fall in the Exannulata division which has been divided 

 into three sections, the principal characters of which are indicated 

 in the following key. 



KEY TO THE SECTIONS 



Pileus more than 3.5 cm broad j 



Pileus less than 3.5 cm broad Pusilla 



I Veil present Indusiata 



I Veil absent Denudata 



Indusiata 



Veil evident, webby, often making the margin of the pileus super- 

 ficially silky. 



KEY TO THE SPECIES 



Pileus glutinous and squamose glutinosum 



Pileus viscid, not squamose i 



I Stem commonly showing- fragments of an annulus velatum 



I Stem not at all annulate 2 



2 Pilevts umbonate firmum 



2 Pileus not umbonate 3 



3 Spores 6-8 long parvifructum 



3 Spores 10-12 long 4 



4 Stem white, fibrous sqnamulose f astibile 



4 Stem whitish or subochraceous, fibrillose pascuense 



Hebeloma glutinosum (Lindgr.) Fr. 



GLUTINOUS HEBELOMA 



Sylloge 5:793 



Pileus fleshy, convex becoming plane, glutinous, sprinkled with 

 white superficial scjuamules, yellowish white, flesh white or whitish ; 

 lamellae close, sinuate, adnexed, yellowish becoming dingy cinna- 

 mon ; stem equal or slightly thickened at the base, firm, stuflfed, 

 mealy at the top, fibrillose squamulose, whitish, somewhat ferrugin- 

 ous within; spores ellipsoid, 10-12 x 5-6 ik 



Pileus 2.5-7 c"^ broad ; stem 4-8 cm long, 4-8 mm thick. 



Ground in woods. Essex and Warren counties. September and 

 October. 



This species is easily recognized by its very viscose or glutinous 

 pileus with its superficial white scales. These are not persistent 

 and consequently specimens may be found without any scales. 



