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d. Stipe equal, solid, 106, 107. 



e. Stipe equal, hollow, 108. 



C. Stipe whitish, glabrous, polished, 109. 



A. Sfdpe colored, scaly or fibrillose. 

 a. Stiije and p ileus of the same color. 



102. A. LANDGiNOSUS, Bull. — Pileus a little fleshy, hemispheric-ex- 

 panded, obtuse, floccose-scal}^, yquarrose with erect muricate scales. 

 Stipe solid, slender, scaly-fibrillose, white-pulverulent at the apex. 

 Lamellae seceding, ventricose, denticulate, pale-argillaceous. 



Upon the earth in beech woods. Pileus about 1 in. broad, stipe 1^- 

 2 in. high. Umber then yellowish, regular, scarcely odorous. Flesh 

 dirty-white. 



103 A. DDLCAMARUS, A. & S. — Pilcus a little fleshy, convexo-um- 

 bonate, pilose-scaly. Stipe disposed to be hollow, curtained-fibrillose 

 and scaly, mealy at the apex. Lamellae arcuate-attached, ventricose, 

 pallid then olivaceous. 



In woods, gregarious. Pileus olivaceous-brown, the flesh white 

 changing to yellowish. I do not know this plant, and have no figure 

 of it; it is given on the authority of Lea's Catalogue. 



b. Stipe paler than the pileus. 



104. A. PYRioDORous, Pers. — Pileus fleshy, conic-expanded, um- 

 bonate, clothed with appressed fibrous scales. Stipe solid, firm, equal, 

 curtained fibrillose, growing pale, pruinose at the apex, reddish 

 within. Laraelhfi emargiuate, rather distant, white-sordid then some- 

 what cinnamon. 



Along roads and paths in woods, early. Pileus about 2 in. across, 

 the stipe 2-3 in. high. " With a pleasant odor of pears or violets. — 

 Fries. " Odor penetrating, like that of rotten pears." — Berkley. 

 Pileus brown then becoming ochraceous-palid; the flesh reddish. 



B. Stipe whitish, slightly tinged with the color of the pileus, 

 fibrillose. 



c. Stipe solid, bulbous. 



105. A. RiMosDS, Bull. Pileus fleshy, thin, campanulate, silky- 

 fibrous, when expanded longitudinally rimose. Stipe solid firm, 

 nearl}^ glabrous, somewhat bulbous, white-mealy at the apex. Lam- 

 ellse free, somewhat ventricose, argillaceous changing to brownish. 

 Spores elliptic-ovoid, .0083X.0056 mm. 



In woods and waste places. Pileus 1-2 in. broad, stipe 1^-2^ in. long. 



