Melanosporae 



tion, Gomphidius rhodoxanthus can not be mistaken for any other spe- 

 cies. 



It is not common in localities I have frequented, but its presence is 

 pretty general in the United States, specimens having been sent to me 

 from Georgia, Iowa, New York, New Jersey, etc., and I have found it 

 in West Virginia, North Carolina, Woodland Cemetery, Philadelphia, 

 and other places in Pennsylvania, from July to September, 1898, in- 

 clusive. Having enjoyed it in West Virginia in 1882, I was delighted 

 to find it in generous quantity at Mt. Gretna, Pa., and to eat many 

 meals of it. Its caps are not excelled by any edible fungus. They 

 have solid, delicious substance and rich full flavor. 



The plant is often cespitose. I have never found its cap viscid or 

 glutinous. The cooked flesh has the latter consistency. 



MONTAGNITES Fr. 



After Montagne. (Plate CI, fig. 6, p. 368.) 



The universal veil forming a volva, persistent. Stem dilated at the 

 apex into a plane round disk, even on both sides, to the margin of which 

 are adfixedtlie gills wJiich are free, not joined by any membrane, radiating, 

 razor-shaped, persistent, obtuse at the edge. Trama cellulose. Spores 

 oblong, even, black fuscous. Fries. 



A single species is reported from Texas. 



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