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ANALYSIS OF THE SPECIES. 



A. Cuticle dry, 



I. Proceei. 



Eing movable, distinct from tlie volva. 



When young the fungus is entirely enclosed in the 

 universal veil, which splits in a circumscissile manner, the 

 basal portion not distinct from the bulb, the upper portion 

 being concrete with the cuticle of the pileus, which is usually 

 scaly. Stem not peronate or sheathed with stocking-liko- 

 continuation of the volva, as in the following section ; apex 

 of stem with a cartilaginoiis ring, to which the free, remote> 

 gills are attached. 



II. Clypeolarii. 



Eing fixed, homogeneous with the universal veil that 

 sheaths the stem. 



Stem floccose or squamulose with the universal veil up to 

 the ring; cartilaginous collar at the apex close to the stem^ 

 hence the gills are usually not so remote. Flesh soft, smelL 

 and taste unpleasant, somewhat resembling radishes. 



III. Annulosi. 



Eing superior, fixed, somewhat persistent; universal veil 

 adnate with the pileus. 



Collar at apex of stem absent, or similar in texture to the 

 flesh of the stem. 



IV. Geanulosi. 



Universal veil at first contiguous with pileus and stem, 

 and when ruptured forms the inferior ring. 



Pileus granular or warted. The stem is not so distinctly 

 differentiated from the pileus as in the other sections. 



V. Mesomoei'hi. 



Small, slender, stem fistulose ; pileus dry, cuticle entire. 

 Not granular nor torn, as in the seel ion Clypeolarii. 



B. Cuticle of pileus viscid ; not at all hroJcen up. 



