REPORT OF THE STATE BOTANIST I908 33 



NEW EXTRALIMITAL SPECIES OF FUNGI 

 Agaricus approximans 



PLATE V, FIG. 8-14 



Pileus thin, conic or campanulate, often obtusely umbonate, 

 squamulose except the umbo, often radiately rimose, whitish, with 

 brownish squamules and blackish brown or fuscous umbo, flesh 

 white, unchangeable, taste sweet, agreeable; lamellae thin, close, 

 free, white becoming brown or blackish brown ; stem equal or 

 tapering upward, stuffed or hollow, whitish, sometimes brownish 

 below the white annulus ; spores .0002-00024 of an inch long, 

 .00014-.00016 broad. 



Pileus 1-2 inches broad; stem 1-1.5 inches long, 2-3 lines 

 thick. 



Gregarious or sometimes two united at the base. On manure. 

 Near Trenton, N. J. Septeinber. E. B. Sterling. 



Growing witli Agaricus p 1 a c o m y c e s Pk. from which 

 it dift'erS in its smaller size, campanulate pileus and brown umbo. 

 It is one of the few species in which the color of the lamellae 

 changes from white to brown without any intervening pink color. 

 From similar species of Lepiota it may be distinguished by its 

 brown spores and brown mature lamellae. 



Pileus tenuis, conicus vel campanulatus, saepe obtuse umbonatus, 

 squamulosus praeter umbonem, saepe radiate rimosus, albidus, 

 squamulis brunnescentibus et umbone brunneo-nigro fuscove, carne 

 alba, immutabile, sapore dulce, grata ; lamellae tenues, con- 

 ferlae, liberae, albae deinde brunneae vel nigrescentes ; stipes 

 aequalis vel sursum attenuatus, farctus cavusve, albidus, annulo 

 albo; sporae 5-6 x 3.5-4 ,". 



Pileus 2.5-5 cm latus ; stipes 2.5-4 cm longus, 4-6 mm crassus. 



Amanita elongata 



Pileus thin, conic or ovate becoming broadly convex, glabrous, 

 even or striate on the margin, yellow or orange, sometimes more 

 deeply colored in the center, flesh white ; lamellae close, free, white ; 

 stem long, slender, flexuous, white or whitish at the top, pallid 

 below, slightly thickened at the base, slightly radicating, the 

 annulus pale yello\y ; spores broadly elliptic, .0003-.0004 of an 

 inch long, .00024-.0003 broad. 



