66 AGARICINI. 



H. longicauda. Pers. 



Pileus, one and a half to two inches broad, clay color, the 

 disk sometimes becoming fuscous, fleshy, not compact, convex 

 then expanded, umbonate, at length repand, even smooth, 

 viscid ; flesh soft, watery, but not hygrophanous. 



Stem, four inches long, three to four lines thick, hollow, 

 fragile, equal or thickened at the base, absolutely fibrillose, 

 white, mealy at the apex, at length becoming tawny at the 

 base. No cortina manifest. 



Gills, arcuato-adnate, crowded, six lines broad, white clay, 

 at length cinnamon, serrulated and somewhat dotted at the 

 edge. 



Odor weak, not unpleasant, in no wise that of the radish. — 

 Stevenson' s British Fungi. 



This specimen was found in an open woods near Albright's mill, in a 

 marshy jungle. It does not quite agree with Sowerby's specimen. It 

 did not quite fill the characters given by him for geophyllus. Ccespitose. 

 It was growing in rings almost like marasmius oreades. 



H. firmus. Pers. 



Pileus, two to three inches broad, brick-red, fleshy, cara- 

 panulate then flattened, umbonate, the broad umbo darker, 

 thin at the circumference, even smooth, viscid. 



Gills, rounded, crowded, two to three lines broad, thin, 

 arid, cla3^-color then ferruginous, unspotted, but white serru- 

 lated at the edge. 



Stem, two to three inches long, one-half inch thick, solid, 

 firm, somewhat attenuated and commonly darker downwards, 

 clothed throughout with white floccose squamules. Cortina 

 evident, white. 



The gills do not distil drops, hence they are unspotted. 

 Odor weak. — Stevenson' s British Fungi. 



