96 TWEN.Y-THIRD REPORT ON THE STATE CABINET. 
becoming brownish-yellow ; stipe equal, whitish, slightly fibril- 
lose, solid. 
Height 1-2’, breadth of pileus 9-18”. 
Ground in groves and open places. Sandlake and West 
Albany. June - October. 
In very wet weather the pileus sometimes splits on the 
margin. 
87. AGARICUS FLOccULOoSUS Berk. 
Pileus thin, fleshy, convex or subcampanulate, umbonate, 
squamulose, grayish-brown; lamellz broad, subventricose, 
attached, pale brownish, tinged with red; stipe firm, solid, 
fibrillose, a little paler than the pileus. 
Height 1’-2’, breadth of pileus 6’-12”. 
Ground in fields and by roadsides. North Elba and West 
Albany. September and October. 
88. AGARICUS SARCOPHYLLUS 7. Sp. 
Pileus fleshy, short and obtusely conical or convex, smooth, 
white, the margin incurved; lamelle broad, not crowded, 
attached, deeply emarginate, dingy flesh-color; stipe equal, 
smooth, white, firm, stuffed, mealy-squamulose above, spores 
smooth, very dark ferruginous. 
Height 1’—-2’, breadth of pileus 6-18”. 
Wet grassy ground. Greenbush. June. 
Taste slightly bitter. The edge of the lamelle is slightly 
eroded. Their deep emargination and peculiar color make 
this a strongly marked species. At first sight, it looks like @ 
small Psalliota. (Plate 1, figs. 7-11.) 
89. AGARICUS GEOPHYLLUS Sow. 
Pileus fleshy, thin, conical, then convex or expanded, 
broadly umbonate, silky, smooth, white ; lamellez close, not 
broad, slightly emarginate, attached, whitish, becoming dingy 
brownish; stipe firm, equal, rather long, white, solid or 
stuffed. 
Height 2’—3’, breadth of pileus 6’-9”. 
Ground in woods and open places. North Elba and Green- 
bush. August — October. 
Series 4— PRATELLZ. 
Spores brownish-purple or brown. 
Subgenus — Psalliota. 
Veil fixed to the stem, forming a ring.— Berk. Oui. 
