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V. Descriptions of New Species of Fungi 



15Y CIIAS. II. PECK. 

 [liead before this Society June Gth, 1873.J 



HYMENOMYCETES. 



Agaricns (Amanita) rnssuloides; Peck. 



Pileus at first o%'ate, then expanded or convex, rougli witli a few superficial 

 warts or entirely smooth, viscid when moist, widely striate-tuberculate on the 

 margin, pale yellow or straw color ; lamellae close, free, narrowed toward the 

 stem, white ; stem firm, smooth, stuffed, annulate, equal or slightly tapering 

 upward, bulbous ; annulus thin, soon vanishing; volva fragile, subappressed ; 

 spores broadly elliptical, .0004* long, .0003' broad. 



Plant 3'-3' high, pileus 1.5-3' broad, stem 3"f-5" thick. 



Grassy ground in open woods. Greenbusli, June. This species 

 is remarktible for the thin striate-tuberculate margin of the pileus 

 Avhicli causes it to resemble some species of Kussula. 



Agaricus (Lepiota) fuscosquameusj Peck. 



Pileus hemispherical or convex, rough with numerous erect pointed black- 

 ish-brown scales ; lamellae close, white, free ; stem equal, thickened at the 

 base, hollow or stuffed with a cottony pith, floccose, brown ; spores .0003' x 

 .00014'. 



Plant 3'-3' high, pileus 1.5'-3' broad, stem 3" thick. 



Ground in woods. Croghan. September. 



Agaricus (Lepiota) oblitus, Perk. 



Pileus convex or expanded, subumbonate, smooth or ol)scurely squaraose 

 from the breaking up of the veil, viscid, alutaceous inclining to tawny, the 

 umbo generally darker ; lamellae crowded, free, whitish or yellowish, some of 



*0ne accent (') = inch or inches. tTwo accents (") = line or lines. 



BUL. BUF. 80C. NaT. SCI. (6) JULY, 1873. 



