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A. Sylvaticus. Schaeff. Wood Agaricus. 



Pileus, flesh thin, campaiuilate, then expanded, gibbous, 



fibrous. 



Gills, free, crowded, dry, reddish, then brown purple. 



Stem, hollow, white. 



Ringf, distant, thin. 



Scarce in the Valley. Found specimens in Spring Creek woods, and 

 near Allentown. 



Genus XXIV. STROPHARIUS. Fr. 



Stroplios^ a sword-belt. 



Hymenophore continuous with the stem. Veil annular. 

 Gills adnate. Corresponds with Armillaria of the white-spored 

 series. 



S. squamosus. Fr. 



Pileus, three inches broad, squamose, ochraceous, convex, 

 flattened, viscid when moist. 



Gills, adnate, crowded, cinereous, then dark fuscous. 

 Stem, tubular, hollow, ferruginous below. 

 Scarce. Haus's Hill and in woods near Catasauqua. 



S. semiglobatus. Batsch. 



Pileus, from one-fourth to one-half inch broad, yellowish, 

 hemisphtrical, obtuse, viscous. 



Gills, adnate, clouded with black. 



Stem, fistulose, straight, yellowish, glutinous veil with an 

 incomplete ring. 



Spring Creek woods. 



Ge\us XXV. HYPHOI^OMA. 



Veil woven into a web around the margin. Gills emargi- 

 nate, spores dark purple. Hymenophore continuous with the 



