REPORT OF THE BOTANIST. 87 
Plant czspitose-imbricating or solitary, 1’-3’ broad. 
Trunks of deciduous trees in woods. Common. October 
and November. 
The color of the pileus is a peculiar grayish-brown, vari- 
ously modified with yellow and greenish or olivaceous hues. 
Ben edge of the lamellez is sometimes discolored and slightly 
occose. 
Series 2— HyPoRuHoDII. 
Spores salmon-colored. 
' Subgenus—Pluteus. / 
Hymenophorum distinct from the stem. Veil none.—JBerk. 
Outl. 
In this subgenus the lamelle are generally free, and at length 
flesh-colored, the pileus convex and the stem solid. 
SYNOPSIS OF THE SPECIES. 
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60. AGARICUS CERVINUS Scheff. 
Pileus fleshy, at first campanulate, then expanded, fibrillose, 
grayish-brown, sometimes splitting into cracks or chinks; 
lamelle moderately distant, rather broad, a little narrowed 
toward the stipe, free, white, changing to flesh-color ; stipe 
equal or slightly tapering upward, firm, solid, striated- 
fibrous, blackish-brown or whitish. 
Height 3’-6’, breadth of pileus 2’-4’, stipe 3’-6” thick. 
On or about old stumps in open places, groves and borders 
of woods. Common. May-—October. 
Sometimes the stipe is nearly smooth and white, at others 
it is quite dark and fibrous or scaly. 
61. AGARICUS NANUS Pers. 
Pileus convex, rather thin, fibrillose or somewhat mealy, 
brown; lamelle rather broad, a little narrower outwardly, 
white, becoming pale flesh-color, free; stipe white, firm, stri- 
ate, solid. 
Height 1’-2’, breadth of pileus about 1’. 
On decaying wood in groves. West Albany. October. 
62. AGARICUS LEONINUS Scheff. 
Pileus thin, submembranaceous, convex, becoming ex- 
panded, smooth, subhygrophanous, striatulate on the mar- 
gin; lamelle rather broad, free, at length flesh-colored ; stipe 
white, solid, firm, slightly striate, equal. 
