MYCOLOGICAL BULLETIN 



No. 28 



//'. A. KcUcrman, Ph. D., Ohio State University 



Columbus, Ohio, February 15, 1905 



The GExrs Psi-loc'-y-ee. — This is a small group of the brown-sportd 

 Agarics, and the name from two Greek words, means naked head. Some 

 authors accent the third syllable, thus, Fsi-lo-cy'-be. In structure this is 

 much like Col-lyb'-i-a (white-spored), Lep-to'-ni-a (rosy-spored), and 

 Nau-co'-ri-a (ochre-spored ), but its brown spores separate it from those 

 genera. Tt has no veil, the stipe is tenaceous and 'continuous' with the 

 pileus, the margin of the piJeus is at first incurved, and the gills are not 

 decurrent ; these characters separate it from its near relatives in the 

 .o^roup of brown-spored Agarics. Atkinson's Mushrooms Edible and 

 Poisonous gives no species ; Mcllvaine's One Thousand American Fungi 

 notes two species. Fig. SI in this Bulletin is not very common. 



I'lG. !'0. Mer-u'-i-ius rt-bel'-lus. REr.l.jH Mer-u'-li-us. Not inedible, hut 

 IourIi. 'I"liis species grows on rotten trunks, stumps, etc. It is more or less 

 tespitiise, imbricate and sessile, and of a soft and tenaceous te.xture. It is strongly 

 tingtd with red, but becomes pole when dry. The beautiful red-orange specimens from 

 vvliicli the cut was made, were collected by Professor J. II. .SchatTner and II. II. York, 

 in a woods mar C\)himbus, in October, 1904. 



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