94 TWENTY-THIRD REPORT ON THE STATE CABINET. 
80. AGARICUS OVALIS F7. 
Pileus thin, submembranaceous, conical or bell-shaped, 
obtuse, smooth, brownish-ferruginous and obscurely striatulate 
when moist, dark ferruginous when dry; lamell# broad, 
subventricose, nearly free, ferruginous; stipe slender, nearly 
straight, slightly striate, subconcolorous. 
Height 3’—4’, breadth of the pileus 6’"-12”. 
Ina pine grove. West Albany. June. 
This is A. campanulatus Bull, in the Epicrisis of Fries, p. 
205. The cuticle of the pileus sometimes cracks and scales off 
in irregular patches. 
81. AGARICUS TENER Scheff. 
Pileus submembranaceous, oval or obtusely conical, some- 
times campanulate, smooth, watery, tawny and striatulate 
when moist, yellowish-white when dry ; lamellze close, quite 
broad, slightly attached, cinnamon-color ; stipe Slender, 
smooth, colored like the pileus. 
Height 2’-3’, breadth of pileus 4’—-8”. 
On dung, manured ground and in rich pastures. West 
Albany and North Elba. June- October. 
¥82. AGARICUS SPHAGNORUM Pers. 
Pileus thin, fleshy, fragile, broadly conical or convex, then 
expanded, generally with a small umbo, striatulate on the 
margin, pale watery cinnamon, becoming ochraceous-yellow 
when dry; lamelle broad, attached, dul! cinnamon-color ; 
stipe long, fragile, flexuous or straight, subconcolorous, silky 
fibrillose, whitish-villous at the base. 
Height 4-6’, breadth of pileus 6-12”, : 
In peat marshes, among Sphagnum. Sandlake. June- 
September. 
Fries considers this a variety of the next species. It appears 
to me to be quite distinct. 
83. AGARICUS Hypnorum BLatsch. 
Pileus submembranaceous, obtusely conical, hemispherical 
or convex, with or without a small papilla at the apex, ferru- 
ginous-yellow and marginally striatulate when moist, yel- 
low and substriate when dry; lamellz broad, attached, pale 
cinnamon-color ; stipe long, slender, subconcolorous. 
Height 2’-4’, breadth of pileus 3-5”. 
Mossy places in woods. North Elba. August. 
