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the waiter roar out: "You three young scamps clear out this mo- 

 ment ! Off with you ! Have you gone crazy? Who ever heard lell 

 of a frog-stool lady?" The moment I made my appearance one 

 boy cried out: "There she be!" ''That's her!" said another. 

 "Didn't I tell you so!" said the third. The boys exulted over their 

 success, while the waiter fell back looking ashamed of having so un- 

 ceremoniously driven off my visitors. One boy had his hat filled. 

 Another had an old tin bucket with the bottom half out, but stuffed up 

 with the largest A. nitidus I ever saw. The third had a basket with- 

 out a handle, and wherever there was an opening it was filled up with 

 a large Agaric. 



With some few exceptions the plants that T found were the. du- 

 plicates of those that I had collected in past seasons near Baltimore. 

 A. {Ama?iita) jnuscarius, L. , with its usual warted and canary yellow 

 pileus, varied in size according to the soil and locality in which it 

 grew. A. {Amanita^ ctesarius, 'icoY>., with its smooth viscid pileus and 

 striate margin, varied in intensity of color. At times it was scarlet, 

 then bright sienna red; lamellte free, yellow; stipe floccose, always 

 more or less curved, and filled with a cottony stuffing ; volva adnate 

 at the base with a free margin. A. (Amanita) solitaries, Bull., did not 

 always grow solitary as its name implies, it seemed to love company. 

 I frequently met with three or four plants not more than nine inclies 

 apart, and in one instance two grew close together, but this is not the 

 rule. The stipe of this Agaric is always solid, and the flesh is gener- 

 ally dry, but 1 once met with several plants that exuded a watery juice 

 profusely when cut, and this too in very dry weather when there was 

 no external moisture for them to aljsorb. A. {Ainaiiita) rubesccns, 

 Pers. , I found only in one locality with a dark red warted pileus, and 

 stipe covered with red scales. A. (Amanita) vaginatt/s, Bull., was 

 large and beautiful. A. (Amanita) nitidus, Fr., plentiful and very large. 



The sca'y cuticled sub genus Lcpiota was largely represented. The 

 following species were to be found in quantities nearly everywhere. 

 A (Lepiota) Americanus, Peck, I found in woods near Baltimore in 

 1879, but it was not to compare with the large and beautiful plants I 

 collected in Carroll and Frederick counties. It varies in depth of color 

 as well as in size. The largest measured 7 inches across the pileus. A. 

 (Lepiota) cepcestipes. Sow., was in every period of its growth and even 

 in its decline, delicately beautiful. I found it mostly in short grass on 

 lawns and in flower gardens, growing in tufts. I remarked its slow- 

 ness in coming to perfection I watched a tuft of young plants for 

 two days, and although the atmos])here was warm and damp with oc- 

 casional gentle showers, they did not expand until the morning of the 

 third day. A. (Lepiota) eristatiis, Fr., was plentiful and seemed also 

 to prefer lawns and gardens. A. (Lepiota) procerus, Scop , measured 

 8 inches across the pileus. This is a variable Agaric in size as well as 

 in color, and the pileus is often without scales. A. (Annillaria) mel- 

 leus,, Vahl., grew in dense clusters on dead stumps. Thepilei varied 

 in size 4-9 inches across ; stipes 4-9 inches high. A. ( Tricholoma) 

 personafns, Fr. , also.^. (Tricholoma) pnefoliatits, Peck, were large, but 

 not plentiful. A. (Clitocyhe) illitdens, Schw., was gorgeous. It took 

 possession of old stumps, growing in large hunches, looking like a cloth 

 of gold spread out for some grand entertainment of the Nymphs. The 



