109 TWENTY-THIRD REPORT ON THE STATE CABINET. 
Height 1-2’, breadth of pileus 1’-1.5’, stipe 1’-2” thick. 
Grassy ground in yards and fields. Albany. June. Grega- 
rious or ceespitose. The pileus is fragile, the spores are brown. 
99. AGARICUS CERNUUS Mull. 
Pileus thin, slightly fleshy, convex, smooth, hygrophanous, 
dark watery brown and marginally striatulate when moist, 
yellowish or pale ochraceous and more or less rugose-wrinkled 
when dry ; lamelle close, narrow, attached, whitish, then dark 
brown ; stipe smooth, shining, white, hollow, sometimes wavy ; 
spores brown. 
Height 1-2’, breadth of pileus 8’—18”. ’ 
About or on old stumps and logs in woods. Sandlake and 
Catskill Mountains. September and October. 
In drying, the pileus begins to change color on the disk, 
leaving the margin dark for a little time. 
100. AGARICUS SEMILANCEOLATUS Pers. 
Pileus thin, submembranaceous, smooth, conical and acute, 
or convex and obtuse, sometimes with a small acute umbo, 
viscid when moist, and sometimes obscurely striatulate, whitish 
or pale yellow; lamelle rather broad, loose, attached, slightly 
emarginate, purple-black, the edge white; stipe slender, sub- 
flexuous, smooth, pruinose at the top, stuffed with a pith or 
hollow, white-villous at the base. 
Height 2’-3’, breadth of pileus 6’—10”. 
On dung in pastures. Bethlehem. November. 
Series 5 — COPRINARIUS. 
Spores black ; gills never becoming purple or brown. 
Subgenus— Paneolus. 
Veil, when present, interwoven. Pileus rather fleshy, without 
strie ; margin at first extending beyond the gills, which are 
clouded.—Berk. Outt. 
The pileus is thin, seldom expanded ; the lamelle are ascend- 
ing, becoming clouded, at length black with spores, not dissolv- 
ing, the edge often white; the stipe is smooth, rather long and 
firm, generally hollow. 
SYNOPSIS OF THE SPECIES. 
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befPileus réticulated oi. nas. . PSEA REY pte ee eel = «elo oie oe 103. 
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c. Whitish-gray or yellowish-white..........-....- eee eee nee eee ween te nerees 104. 
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