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mealy, hollow or loosely stuffed with cottony fibres, not an- 
nulate, sheathed at the base with the persistent volva. 
Height 3’- 6’ breadth of the pileus 1’—4’. 
Common in woods. August. 
The color of the pileus is various, but commonly a livid or 
Re ae I have seen the white variety, A. nivalis 
rev., on sterile grassy banks in Keene, Essex county. 
Patches of the torn volva may be seen on the young pileus. 
6. AGARICUS CECILLE B. & Br. 
Pileus sulcate-striate on the margin, grayish-brown, warty, 
at first ovate and slightly viscid, then broadly convex, ex- 
panded or even slightly depressed ; lamelle broad, white, 
free; stipe white, slightly tapering upward, minutely squa- 
mulose, hollow or stuffed with cottony fibres, not annulate ; 
the volva soon disappearing. 
Height 4’— 6’, breadth of pileus 2’-3’. 
Grassy borders of a grove at Greenport. July. 
This species is closely related to the preceding one, but 
easily separated by the warty pileus and evanescent basal 
portion of the volva. I do not find the stem more densely 
stuffed than it is in A. vaginatus. 
7. AGARICUS FARINOSUS Schw. 
Pileus suleate-striate on the margin, livid-brown, pulveru- 
lent coated ; lamelle whitish, free; stipe pallid, cylindrical, 
becoming hollow, farinaceous, subbulbous, not annulate ; 
volva evanescent or none. 
Height 2’, breadth of the pileus 1’—2’. 
In open woods. Greenbush. July. 
The powdery or dust-like coating of the pileus is more 
abundant on the disk, where it is collected in heaps or patches 
eae of being rubbed off. The plant might easily be mis- 
taken fora species of Russula. 
Subgenus — Lepiota. 
Veil universal, concrete with the cuticle of the pileus. Hymen- 
ophorum distinct from the stem.— Berk. Outz. 
The species of this subgenus are generally smaller than those 
of the preceding, and the most of them have the pileus rough 
with tufts or scales formed by the breaking up of the cuticle 
with the concrete veil. This frequently gives them a beautiful 
variegated appearance. 
SYNOPSIS OF THE SPECIES. 
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