180 Peck : NEw SPECIES OF FUNGI 
Pileus 2.5-3.5 cm. broad; stem 2-3 cm. long, 4-8 mm. thick, 
often curved. 
Decaying wood. Near St. Louis, Mo. September and Oc- 
tober. N. M. Glatfelter. 
Flammula Braendlei 
Pileus convex becoming nearly plane with incurved margin, 
sometimes irregular, fibrillose squamulose, especially in the cen- 
ter, slightly viscid, purplish when young, soon yellowish or yel- 
lowish white, sometimes with bluish green stains, flesh whitish ; 
lamellae thin, close, adnate or slightly decurrent, bright ferrugin- 
ous when mature; stem equal or slightly tapering upward, ‘fibril- 
lose, hollow, whitish streaked with brown, veil webby, sometimes 
forming a silky zone on the stem and becoming conspicuous by the 
spores lodging on it; spores elliptic, 6-8 » long, 4-5 y broad. 
Pileus 2.5—5 cm. broad; stem 2.5—5 cm. long, 4—8 mm. thick. 
"Single or cespitose on decaying trunks. September to No- 
vember. Near Washington. F. J. Braendle. Near St. Louis 
N. M. Glatfelter. 
This species is quite attractive by reason of the bright ferrug- 
inous color of the mature lamellae and the spores. It belongs to 
the section Serice/lae. Sometimes the pileus is slightly umbilicate. 
Agaricus solidipes 
Pileus fleshy, firm, convex, squamose or rimose squamose, 
white or whitish, involute on the margin, flesh white, unchange- 
able, taste sweet, agreeable ; lamellae close, free, dull pink chang- 
ing to dull sepia, finally brownish black; stem very short, equal 
or tapering upward or downward, glabrous, solid, white or whit- 
ish, the white veil slight, often adhering entirely to the margin of 
the pileus; spores elliptic, 8-1o » long, 5-6 » broad. 
Pileus 2-7 cm. broad; stem 2-4 cm. long, 6-10 mm. thick. 
Prairie pastures. Colorado. June. E. B. Sterling. 
A species well marked by its squamose pileus, involute or in- 
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curved, often appendiculate margin and by its short solid stem. 
Agaricus rutilescens 
Pileus fleshy, firm, convex with incurved margin, becoming 
nearly plane, even or sometimes rimose and minutely fibrillose, 
dingy white, becoming ferruginous, reddish-brown or bay in drying, 
flesh whitish changing to reddish where cut or broken; lamellae 
close, narrow, free, reddish becoming blackish-brown ; stem equal 
or nearly so, firm, stuffed, silky, white, changing to reddish where 
