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EDIBLE AND POISONOUS MUSHROOMS OF CANADA<br />
56. Lamellae free; spores smooth Pluteus<br />
P. cervinus (Schaeff. ex Seer.) Fr.<br />
56. Lamellae variously attached; spores slightly echinulate Lepista<br />
L. subaequalis (Britz. ) Sing.<br />
57. Spore deposit yellow-brown to purple-brown; spores truncate at apex,<br />
dull yellow-brown in KOH; cuticle of pileus not cellular 58<br />
57. Not with above combination of characters 61<br />
58. Spores typically purple-brown in deposit; if dull rusty brown<br />
then annulus well developed; usually with a special type of cystidia<br />
with an amorphous internal body that stains golden yellow when<br />
mounted in ammonia (chrysocystidia);<br />
if lignicolous, chrysocystidia present Stropharia<br />
S. aeruginosa (Curt, ex Fr.) Quel.<br />
58. Not as above 59<br />
59, Chrysocystidia absent; stipe typically fleshy; spores rusty brown in mass;<br />
annulus usually present; habitat typically lignicolous Kuehneromyces<br />
K. (Pholiota) mutabilis (Schaeff. ex Fr.) Sing. & Smith<br />
59. Not as above 60<br />
60. Chrysocystidia present Naematoloma<br />
N. (Hypholoma) sublateritium (Fr.) Karst.<br />
60. Chrysocystidia absent Psiiocybe<br />
P. semilanceata (Fr.) ex Kummer<br />
6L Spore deposit typically bright rusty brown to earth-brown, spores truncate;<br />
cuticle of pileus cellular in structure 62<br />
6L Spore deposit typically cocoa-brown to chocolate, or if rusty<br />
brown to yellow then spores have not a truncate apex 64<br />
62. Pileus viscid and soft, often subdeliquescent; margin of pileus<br />
plicate-striate Bolbitius<br />
B. fragilis (L. ex Fr.) Fr.<br />
62. Not as above 63<br />
63. Stipe typically fleshy and spore deposit typically dull clay color<br />
to earth-brown (sec Psat/iyrella nho) Agrocybe<br />
A. (Pholiota) praecox (Pers. ex Fr.) Fayod<br />
63. Stipe typically cartilaginous; spore deposit bright rusty brown Conocybe<br />
C. (Galera) tenera (Schaeff. ex Fr. ) Fayod<br />
64, Spores smooth, lamellae readily separable from pileus Paxillus<br />
P. involutus (Batsch ex Fr.) Fr.<br />
64. Not as above 65<br />
65. Spore deposit yellow to dark rusty brown 66<br />
65. Spores cocoa-brown to chocolate or black 82<br />
66. Stipe excentric or lacking Crepidotus<br />
C. mollis (Schaeff. ex Fr.) Kummer<br />
66. Stipe typically central 67<br />
67. Spores thin-walled (many collapsed spores usually visible in mounts);<br />
spore deposit typically pale yellow to ochraceous and spores very<br />
pale under the microscope Tubaria<br />
T. furfuracea (Pers. ex Fr.) Gill.<br />
67. Spores well pigmented and with appreciably thickened walls 68<br />
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