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row, whitish, then rosy-brown, the edge often uneven ; stem equal, 
straight, hollow, easily splitting, whitish, pruinose or slightly furfur- 
aceous at the top; spores elliptical, purplish-brown, .0003’ long, 
.0002’ broad. 
Plant gregarious or subceespitose, 2’-3’ high, pileus 1’—2’ broad, 
stem 1’—2” thick. 
Ground among bushes. Green Island and Sandlake. June and 
July. 
The veil is sometimes so strongly developed as to form an imper- 
“fect annulus. The color is nearly white from the first. 
Agaricus (PsILocyBE) ATOMATOIDES 2. sp. 
Pileus rather thin, fragile, convex or subcampanulate, then 
expanded, rugose-wrinkled, subhygrophanous, sprinkled with minute 
shining particles and with tufts of the white floccose fugacious veil, 
grayish or ochraceous-brown, sometimes with a pinkish tint ; lamellee 
rather broad, subventricose, rounded behind, cinereous then dark-: 
brown; stem equal, hollow, clothed when young with minute floccose 
scales, pruinose at the top, whitish; flesh cinereous; spores subellip- 
tical, blackish brown, .00028’—.0003’ long, .00016’ broad. 
Plant 1.5’-2’ high, pileus 8’-12” broad, stem 1” thick. 
Ground and decaying wood under pine trees. West Albany. 
June and July. 
In very wet weather the pileus has a dark watery appearance but 
it dries quickly. The spores in the mass are almost black, neverthe- 
less the plant is closely related to the fragile species of Psilocybe. 
CopRINUS PULCHRIFOLIUS 2. Sp. 
Pileus membranaceous, conical or campanulate, striate to the small 
even yellowish disk, cinereous, sprinkled with minute whitish scales ° 
or granules; lamelle narrow, crowded, free, cinnamon-brown, often 
furnished with a few minute hyaline spine-like processes ; stem slen- 
der, fragile, hollow, white; spores elliptical, brown with a slight 
rosy tinge .0003’ long. 
Plant solitary, 2’-3’ high, pileus 6’-12" broad, stem scarcely 1’ 
thick. 
Ground in woods. Greig. September. 
This remarkable species does not accord well with the characters 
of the genus to which I have referred it, neither in the color of the 
spores nor in the persistent nature of the lamelle, for I have not 
found these to.be deliquescent. Nor will it do to place it among the 
Psathyree, for the lamellee are free and the pileus is not hygrophanous. 
Also, the free lamella: and brown spores forbid its reference to Psa- 
thyrella. I have, therefore, thought best for the present to place it 
