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frosted with white meal ; gills nearly free, linear, very narrow, 



tawnv, ferruginous. — Fr.Epicr. p. 20-4. Fl. Dan. t. 1846,/. 2. 



Battt. 28, T. 



In rich pastures. Rare. 



Stem white, 3 in. and more long ; pileu3 pinkish ochre, about 1 in. high; 

 when moist the margin is closely striate. 



377. Agaricus (Galera) tener. Schceff. " Slender Galera." 



Pileus submembranaceous, conico-campanulate, obtuse, hy- 

 grophanous ; stem straight, fragile, rather shining, nearly of the 

 same colour ; gills adnate, crowded, ascending, rather broad, 

 cinnamon. — Fr. Epicr. |). 204. Schceff. t. 70, f. Q-S. Sow. t. 33. 

 BuU.t.D3D. Bolt. t. 66, f. 2. Fng.Fl.y.p.lOO. 



Rich pastures, dungy ground, &c. Common. 



[United States.] 



Pileus 1 in. high and broad, subcarnose, campanulate, or conico-campanu- 

 late, smooth, shining, ochraceous when dry; gills pale ferruginous, ascending, 

 more or less adnate, ventricose, or sublinear, margin white, subserrulate ; 

 stem 3-5 in. high, It line thick, striate, pulverulento-fibrillose, not brittle, 

 bulbous at the base.— J/./. ^. Spores -00054 X '0003 in. (Pl.IV.,f. 24.) 



378. Agaricus (Galera) antipus. Lasch. " Little pale 



Galera." 



Pileus campanulate, then convex, even, hygrophanous, when 

 dry sprinkled with atoms, disc slightly fleshy; stem straight, 

 short, striate, mealy ; base bulbous, fusiform, rooting ; gills 

 almost free, crowded, lanceolate, yellowish ochre. — Lasch. no. 

 401. Fr.Fpicr.p.206. Smith in Trans. Woolh. CI. (1870). 



On mould in flower pots. 



Simple, slightly rigid ; stem 1 in., paler than the pileus. Pileus |-1 in., 

 not striate, when moist ochraceous, when dry paler, almost white. Spores 

 and then the gills rabiginous. 



379. Agaricus (Galera) confertus. Bolt. " Crowded Galera." 



Pileus submembranaceous, acutely conico-campanulate, smooth, 

 hygrophanous ; stem slender, silky, shining, naked ; base equal, 

 deeply rooting ; gills slightly adnexed, subdistant, white, then 

 brownish-ochraceons. — Fr. Epicr. p. 206. Bolt. t. 18. 



In stoves. Rare. 



Densely crowded, very fragile ; pileus brown, ochraceous when dry, 

 " conical, terminating in an acute point, which point is tinged with yellowish 

 brown, the rest white, the surface smooth, the substance light and cottony. 

 In large specimens it is about 1 in. in diameter ; in decay it withers, and be- 

 comes like soft paper." — Bolton^ 



