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fore shown in the BuUetiu, ami at the same time furuish a fair sample of the 

 figures (not colored) used iu that well kuowu book, which has been spoken of 

 by one of our members as a real ••Eucyclopoedia of American Mushrooms."' 

 The numerous colored plates in that work are fiom studies by the author, 

 Charles Mcllvaiue. 



Lep-i-o'-ta nau-ci'-na; Smooth Le?-i-o'-ta. — The American plant was 

 named Lep-i-o'-ta nau-ci-uoi'-des {Jl'kc »an-ci'-Ha^ by Professor Peek since it 

 differed slightly from the European Lep-i-o'-ta uau-ci'-na, but mycologists 

 generally do not regard it as specifically distinct, hence the use of the first 

 name. It is to be found in the latter part of the summer and autumn, iu 

 lawns, pastures, etc. It is entirely white or the cap is sometimes buff, and 

 the gills (which are at first white) become in age dirty pink in color. The 

 plant grows from '1-h to 4^ inches high and the cap may be from 2 to 4 inches 

 broad. The stem is gradually enlarged below, i. e. cla'-rate, or club shaped. 

 This species is much like the common Mushroom {A-gar'-i-cus cam-jjes'-tris) 

 but the gills do not, as in the latter, become brown when old. Close inspec- 

 ti(m will also separate it from poisonous species oi' Am -a-iil'-ta, which have a 

 vol'-va; the Lep-i-o'-tas never show this structure. 



Fi».'. 61. I'K-7.r-/.A ba'-im-a. r.KciwN 1'k-/.i'-/..\. Kuimi.e. .\li:iv(ir uiiiliii Ihiiwu plimt, pi-owins 

 in cluKters, ou liiiri^ (.'■rouiKl. in the jri-iiss or wlicrc it Iiiin hccn liiinii'if over. Thi'cUsk dl'llii' cii]! is diirk 

 brown, extfriuilly imicr iirid iiiiiiiitcly (.Tiiniiliir, olli'ii with ii iiurplisli tiiiiic. Tlii' t-iit is from 

 McIlvaiue'sOueThousaml .XmiTiciLii KiiiiLn, inmle from n i)liciiol)_v .Mr. ('. a. Moyd, Ciiioiniuiti, Ohio. 



