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NOVA SCOTIAN FUNGI—SOMERS. 
A. (Clitoecybe) giganteus F’, N. W. A. woods, Nov., 1880. 
A. (Clitocybe) Sp., Willow Park woods, Oct. ’80, approaches 
flaccidus, Sow. Not being satisfied with the diag- 
nosis I append the following description: pileus 1 to 
14 inches convex at first, then plane with a small 
well marked umbo. at length depressed umbilicate or 
infundibuliform, the cee disappearing, colour of 
pileus, bright orange, shining mucus, the umbo. 
darker, redish, with lines passing therefrom to the 
margin, lines delicate formed by tearing or separation 
of the scales. When the pileus becomes depressed, the 
colour pales gradually, the red fading out, the orange 
becoming lemon, margin slightly wavy always invo- 
lute, stem 3 to 34 inch, somewhat flexuous stuffed, 
cortex fibrous, attenuated upwards rooting, colour 
lemon yellow, paling towards the apex and base, 
usually eccentric, spores white, gills decurrent, 
straight, narrow, white at first, becoming pale yellow, 
more especially towards their free borders, very 
abundant in swampy places, growing under larch 
spruce, upon decaying leaves. 
Agaricus. (Clitecybe) bellus, Fr., Point Pleasant, under 
pines. Nov., 1880. 
Sub-Gen. Pleurotus, Fr. 
Agaricus (Pleurotus) salignus, F7., willow pleurotus, on 
trunks of living poplars. Oct., 1880. 
Sub-Gen. Collybia, Fv. 
Agaricus (Collybia) radicatus Relh. On dead wood, Wil- 
low Park, Oct., 1880. 
Sub. Gen. Omphalia, Fr. 
Agaricus (Omphalia) hepaticus, Batsch. Willow Park, ses 
1880. 
Agaricus (Omphalia) umbelliferous, Z. Willow Park, Sept., 
1880. 
Agaricus (Oniphalia) fibula, Bull. Willow Park, Sept., 
1880. 
