Peck: New Species or Funai 73 
Bath, Georgia. October. V. Starnes. 
So far as known to me, this is the first representative of this 
genus found in our country. I find no description to match it 
and take great pleasure in dedicating it to its discoverer. 
Agaricus Sterlingii 
Pileus fleshy, firm, convex or sometimes slightly depressed in 
the center, slightly silky and sometimes with appressed spot-like 
scales in the center, pale brown or grayish-brown; flesh dingy, 
white or brownish; lamellae thin, close, free, pale brown, becoming 
blackish-brown with age ; stem equal or nearly so, solid or stuffed, 
whitish, sometimes darker above the annulus; veil thick, partly 
adhering to the margin of the pileus and partly to the stem; 
_ Spores broadly elliptic, 6-8 y long, 4 » broad. 
Pileus 5-12 cm. broad ; stem about 2.5 cm. long, 8-12 mm. 
thick. 
Cespitose. December and April. New Jersey. E. B. Sterling. 
This is one of the few species of the genus Agaricus in which 
the lamellae show no pinkish hues in any stage of development. 
Even in the young plant they have a light sepia tint which be- 
comes darker with age. This mushroom is edible and is regarded 
by the two families who have eaten it freely, as richer in flavor 
than the common mushroom, It seems to be more productive 
and less quickly perishable. Specimens were sent me by Mr. 
Sterling to whom the species is dedicated. 
Clavaria grandis 
Stem stout, distinct, radicating, divided above into numerous 
long erect or slightly diverging branches which are repeatedly 
branched, solid but very fragile, glabrous, reddish-brown with white 
Ups at first, becoming somewhat pulverulent and ferruginous brown 
with concolorous tips when old, somewhat fragrant; spores fer- 
Tuginous, broadly elliptic or subglobose, distinctly verrucose, 10-12 
Ht long, 6-8 » broad. 
‘ pent 12~20 cm. high, nearly as broad above ; stem 2—2.5 cm. 
CK, 
fhin woods under Sylar bushes. Maryland. September. 
FJ; Braendle. 
According to Mr. $e adle this large Clavarta is edible when 
Prepared as pickles and put up in spiced vinegar. 
