PLANTS OF MONROE COUNTY. Ill 



Series IV. — Porphyrospor.e (Pratelli). Gr. — purple. 

 Agaricus. 



Agaricon. a Greek name for fungi, said to be Jerived from 

 the name of a town, Agara. 



197. Ag-aricus eanipester Linn. — campus, a field. The common pasture 



mushroom ; fields, orchards, roadsides, edible. 



198. A. dimiinithiis Pk. ( Pk. 1900). Pittsford, Adirondack Alts., edible. 



199. A. Kodinani Pk. (Pk. 1895). Roadsides, Pittsford, common, edible. 



200. A. niaffiiirtcHS Pk. Roadsides, Pittsford, edible, not common. 



201. A. sihioola Vitt. ( Pk. 1895).— ,?;7f(/, a wood; colo, to iniiabit. Woods, 



Pittsford, edible. 



202. A. placomjees Pk. ( Pk. 1895). Woods, orchards, lawns, common, 



edible. 



203. A. sjivaticiis Schaeff. Woods, Forest Lawn; orchards, Sodus, edible. 



204. A. abniptibulbiis Pk. ( Pk. 1895). (A. silricola Vitt. A. arz'cnsis var 



abruptus Pk.) This being the wood cousin of the field mushroom is 

 worth notice. It grows very tall with a large bulb at the base of 

 the stem and a large pileus, and from a distance looks like Amanita 

 phalloides. It has the true mushroom flavor. Found in woods in 

 Pittsford, not common. 



Stropharia. 



Gr. — a sword Ijelt (referring: to the ring). 



205. Stropharia aeruginosa Curt. — acrmjo. verdigris, from the color. Not 



edible. 



Hypholoma. 



Gr, — a web; Gr. — a fringe. 



206. Hypholoma iiioertiini Pk. { Pk. 1895). Lawns, roadsides, common, 



edible. 



207. H. aggregatum sericeiim Pk. Same habitat as the last and like it, but 



larger, edible. 



208. H. Perplexuni Pk. ( Pk. 1895). Around old stumps, common every- 



■ where, edible. 



209. H. snblateritiuni Schaeff.— j-((/7 and later, a brick, from the color. 



.Same habitat as the last, edible. 



210. H. Boughtoni Pk. (Pk. 1909). A new species discovered by the writer 



in woods at Bushnells Basin. Pileus from two to four inches broad 

 often areolately cracking, pale reddish brown, lamellae unequal 

 purplish brown, seal brown or blackish — stem equal, white or whitish, 

 two to three inches long. Not tested, but Dr. Peck says probably 

 edible. 



