90 TWENTY-THIRD REPORT ON THE STATE UABXSNET. 
SYNOPSIS OF THE SPECIES. 
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68. AGARICUS ADIPOSUS AY. 
Pileus fleshy, firm, conical, then convex or expanded, glut- 
inous when moist, squamose, with dark or reddish scales, 
the margin slightly surpassing the gills, yellow; lamelle 
broad, attached, yellow, at length ferruginous; stipe firm, 
solid or stuffed, slightly enlarged at the base, scaly below 
the slight fugacious annulus, with a slight floccose collar at 
the top, yellow. 
Height 3’ 4’, breadth of pileus 2’—3’, stipe 4’’- 6” thick. 
Base of trees. Greenbush. November. Poughkeepsie. 
Gerard. The plant is ceespitose. 
69. AGARICUS TEMNOPHYLLUS 7. sp. 
Pileus fleshy, hemispherical, then convex, smooth, dull 
yellow ; lamelle very broad, attached, obliquely truncate 
at the inner extremity, brownish-ferruginous; stipe equal, 
smooth, white, hollow, annulate; the annulus membrana- 
ceous, white, dusted with the brownish-ferruginous spores. 
Height 2’-4’, breadth of pileus 1.5’—-2’, stipe 3’—4” thick. 
Grassy ground by roadside. Sandlake. June. 
This species resembles A. semiorbicularis so closely in color, 
taste, etc., that in the absence of the annulus it might be taken 
for a lar oe form of that species. 
- Subgenus— Flammula. 
Stem fleshy ; gills adnate or decurrent.—Berk. Out. 
SYNOPSIS OF THE SPECIES. 
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70. AGARICUS HALLIANUS 7. sp. 
Pileus thin, hemispherical or convex, smooth, hygropha- 
nous, watery cinnamon with the margin obscurely striatulate 
when moist, dull yellow when dry; lamelle close, subarcu- 
ate, slightly decurrent, tapering to a narrow point at the outer 
extremity and ceasing before the margin, cinnamon color ; 
stipe equal, slightly fibrillose, hollow, with a slight annulus, 
reddish-brown. 
Height 2’-3’, breadth of pileus 1’-2’, stipe 2”-3” thick. 
Pastures. Bethlehem. November. 
Taste a little bitter. The annulus is very thin, membran- 
aceous and stained with the spores. 
