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when very damp, breaking out from the pileus easily though with 

 fragments of the gills remaining attached, not strongly continuous 

 with the substance of the pileus. The color is buff to pale clay color ; 

 the stem being even, not bulbous but somewhat enlarged below, 

 mealy over the entire length, which may be washed off by rains, 

 striate at apex either from marks left by the gills or remnants of the 

 gills as they become freed from the stem. Base of stem sometimes 

 with white cottony threads, especially in damp situations. In the 

 original description the stem is said to be " striate sulcate." Figure 

 150 is from plants (No. 3242, C. U. herbarium) collected in woods 

 near Ithaca, October i, 1899. 



GALERA Fr. 



Gale m with ochraceous (ochraceous ferruginous) spores corres- 

 ponds to Mvccna among the white-spored agarics. The pileus is 

 usually bell-shaped, and when young the margin fits straight against 

 the stem. The stem is somewhat cartilaginous, but often very 

 fragile. The genus does not contain many species. Peck gives a 

 synopsis of five American species in the 23rd Report N. Y. State 

 Mus., p. 93, et seq., and of twelve species in the 46th Report, 

 p. 61, et seq. One of the common species is Galera tenera Schaeff. 

 It occurs in grassy fields or in manured places. The plants are 

 5-8 cm. high, the cap 8-16 mm. broad, and the stem 2-3 mm. in 

 thickness. The pileus is oval to bell-shaped, and tawny in color, 

 thin, smooth, finely striate, becoming paler when dry. The gills 

 are crowded, reddish-brown, adnexed and easily separating. The 

 stem is smooth, colored like the pileus but a little paler, sometimes 

 striate, and with mealy whitish particles above. Galera lateritia is 

 a related species, somewhat larger, and growing on dung heaps 

 and in fields and lawns. Galera ovalis Fr., is also a larger plant, 

 somewhat shorter than the latter, and with a prominent ovate cap 

 when young. Galera antipoda Lasch., similar in general appearance 

 to G. tenera, has a rooting base by which it is easily known. Galera 

 flava Pk., occurs among vegetable mold in woods. The pileus is 

 membraneous, ovate or companulate, moist or somewhat watery, 

 obtuse, plicate, striate on the margin, yellow. The plants are 5-8 

 cm. high, the caps 12-25 mm. broad, and the stem 2-3 mm. in 

 thickness. The plant is recognized by the pale yellow color of the 

 caps and the plicate striate character of the margin. The plicate 

 striate character of the cap is singular among the species of this 

 genus, and is shared by another species, G. coprinoides Pk. 



