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tapering upward, often curved, minutely tomentose, containing a 
whitish pith ; spores’subglobose, minute, -00015" in diameter ; flesh 
abounding in:a thin watery or serum-like juicé, changing to pur- 
plish and black when cut. 
Plant 1-3’ high, pileus 6’-12" broad, stem 1” thick. 
Rotten logs in woods. Portville, Cattaraugus county. Sep- 
tember. 
This is a very remarkable and somewhat aberrant species. In 
color it resembles dark forms of Hydnwn gelatinosum. In texture 
it is more firm and fleshy than that plant. The stem is sometimes 
eccentric. The juice exudes from wounds as in species of Lactarius. 
Agaricus (CoLtypiA) MyrrapopHyLius Peck. 
Pileus very thin, broadly convex, then expanded or depressed, 
sometimes umbilicate, hygrophanous, watery brown when moist, 
pale ochraceous or alutaceous when dry; lamelle very numerous, 
narrow, crowded, rounded at the stem and slightly emarginate, 
brownish-lilae ; stem equal, smooth, stuffed, reddish-brown ; spores 
subelliptical, minute, .00012' long. 
Plant subceespitose, 1'-1.5' high, pileus 8’-12" broad, .5" thick. 
Rotten logs and fallen branches in woods. Portville. Sep- 
tember. 
The lamellz are more close than in A. dryophilus, and remarka- 
ble for their singular color. 
AGARICUS PELIANTHINUS 7. 
Mossy prostrate trunks of trees and among fallen leaves in 
woods. Adirondack Mts. and Greig. July and September. 
Agaricus (MrcEna) suscarvuLevs Peck. 
Pileus very thin, campanulate or convex, obtuse, striate, smooth, 
pale bluish-green; lamelle narrow, close, tapering outwardly, 
white; stem slender, equal, pinkish white, slightly pruinose ; 
spores subglobose, .00025' in diameter. 
Plant cspitose, 2’ high, pileus 4-8" broad. 
Trunk of a beech tree. Adirondack Mts. July. 
The disk is more highly colored than the margin and the pileus 
has a separable cuticle. 
Agaricus (Mycena) minututus Peck. 
Pileus campanulate or convex, smooth, striatulate, papillate; 
lamellee broad, subdistant, with a slight decurrent tooth; inter- 
spaces reticulated by transverse veinlets which run down on the 
