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the base, rooting below. The perfect form is large, pileus fleshy 7-8 

 inches across, ochraceous with a brown and very decided umbo, 

 rugose, excessively glutinous, cartilaginous and elastic ; lamelhe some- 

 times edged with brown, adnate, forked, v/hite, distant, thick, ventri- 

 cose ; stipe 7-9 inches high, cartilaginous, stuffed then hollow, red- 

 dish inside, twisted, splits with ease longitudinally, more or less 

 furfuraceous, striate at the apex, reddish brown at the base, pallid above, 

 moist, attenuated at the apex, enlarged at the base, rooting deeply ; 

 spores .00040X. 00052 in., white. 1 have never met with more than 

 six of these plants that combined ail the botanical characteristics. 



In the early part of July I found for the first time in the woods 

 near Catonsville, Baltimore County, A. (^CUtopUus)orccUa, Bull. This 

 is a very delicate fungus in appearance. The size varies in different 

 localities. The pileus is usually from one to two inches across, white 

 to cream-color, sticky in wet weather, dry and kid-like in dry weath- 

 er, irregularly lobed, margin smooth and undulated, at first incurved, 

 lamelhe close, forked, adnate or sub-decurrent, the lengthened ones 

 taper and terminate on the stipe, delicate salmon color ; stipe short, 

 solid, enlarged at the base, at first central, but as the fungus seems to 

 grow more rapidly on one side than on the other it often becomes ec- 

 centric and is twisted laterally near the base; spores .00022X. 00048 

 in., salmon colored. 



In August I found this Agaric in Carroll County, measuring 3^^ 

 inches across the pileus and growing in decided rings. In September 

 I again met with it on the Blue Ridge Mountains, growing in large 

 rings, but generally small. Some plants had a powerful odor of new 

 meal, others were not marked by any peculiar odor, but all tasted 

 strongly of cucumbers. At first sight one might mistake it for Lacta- 

 fills piperatiis, Fr., but upon examination the absence of milk with other 

 botanical characters render its recognition conclusive. Once recog- 

 nized it is impossible to mistake it afterwards. It is edible, and if 

 eaten as soon as gathered it makes a desirable dish to those who love 

 mushrooms. 



Coprinus micaceiis, Fr., growing in large caespitose bunches took 

 possession of the roots of an old Moms alba tree about fifteen miles 

 from Baltimore. I remarked that in every section of the State, where- 

 ever I found it, it came profusely. In August I met with it in Carroll, 

 Frederick, Washington and Alleghany Counties. In every instance 

 growing either at the roots or in the crevices of the bark of the Morus 

 alba. The bark of this tree seems to form a favorite nidus. In Car- 

 roll County, the trunk of one tree was adorned at intervals with 

 bunches of this delicate little fungus. The trunk of another tree look- 

 ed Hke a dark-brown column wreathed with fungi; the pilei glittering 

 with granules. One could scarcely realize that this beautiful wreath- 

 like design was one of nature's freaks. The spores are black with an 

 oblique apiculus, . 0003 X. 00028 in. — Mary E. Banning. 



Recent Puljlications.— Trimen's Journal of Botany, Feb- 

 ruary. — The original articles are as follows: Conclusion of Mr. Rich- 

 ard Spruce's Musci Prfeteriti ; Notes on Abbott's Herbarium, by R. A. 



