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The stout Hebeloma. At first I took this to be a variety of the fasti- 

 bilis of Fries, but ou further investigation I came to the conclusion that 

 it was a firmus. 



It grows in clusters on clay banks along the roadside. It is an interest- 

 ing species. The stipe is beautifully checkered with snow-white 

 squamules. The odor is faint, not unlike a radish. 



Specimen found on a bank on the road leading from Dorneysville to 

 Allentown, near the limekiln at the woods, September, 1893. 



H. fastibilis. 



Pileus, convex, expanded, repand on one side, obtuse, 

 smooth, margin involute, woolly, ochraceous, with a rusty 

 tinge, sometimes with a dull reddish hue, fleshy. 



Gills, broad, with drops of water on the edge, ventricose, 

 emarginate, white at first, then ochraceous, edge serviate. 



Stem, subbulbous, or nearly equal, somewhat rooting, 

 clothed with white scattered somewhat squarrose scales, upper 

 ones forming almost an annulus. Solid when j^oung then 

 hollow, frequently crooked at the base. Odor weak, radish- 

 like or bitter. 



Dorney's woods, October. 



H. versipellis. Changeable Hebeloma. 



Pileus, fleshy, convex plane, viscid, with a tenacious gluten, 

 smooth, brown. 



Gills, rounded, whitish, flesh-color, then clay-color with 

 spores. 



Stem, flbrillose, brownish internal, dirty white external. 



Under an oak tree, near Trexlertown. 



Genus XIX. FI^AMMUIvA. Fr. 



Spores ferruginous, approaching yellow ochre, always bright 

 in color ; veil filamentous, often obsolete ; pileus fleshy ; either 

 dry, squamulose, viscose, smooth, and silky. 



