lamellae crowded, at first dark violaceous then argillaceous-cinnamon ; stem 
oe ‘solid, equal or slightly thickened at the base, whitish ; flesh of the pileus | ge 
Ri. whitish ; spores unequally elliptical, rough, .0003 long, .00025' broad. 
Tie Plant subcespitose, 2'-4! high, pileus 2/—3' broad, stem 3’—5”’ thick. 
| ~ Rocky soil in woods. ‘Ticonderoga. Aug. 
; ee anus CALoPUS F'r. 
Aha Twigs and stems among fallen leaves in woods. Ticonderoga. Aug. 
and has a different insertion of the lamellae. It is sometimes ae 
The pileus in our specimens is whitish. : 
Borders of woods in grassy ground. Ticonderoga. Aug. 
Adirondack Mountains. Aug. 
no (MerismaA) Bratier Banning in litt. 
Pilei few, springing from a common, often tuber-like base, spreading out 
; into a suborbicular mass often a foot or more in diameter, nearly plane above 
A or centrally depressed and imperfectly funnel-shaped, variously confluent and 
---—«simbricated, sometimes single, subzonate, rough with little radiating elevations — 
rar ’ gic, ’ 5 = 
or wrinkles, which sometimes form imperfect reticulations towards the base, 
subpulverulent and strigose-villose in zones or almost evenly scabrous-villose, 
-alutaceous, the margin often irregular and lobed; pores of medium size, 
decurrent on the stem-like base, unequal, angular, lacerated, toothed and ~ 
even lamellated, generally about equal in length to the thickness of the flesh 
of the pileus, subconcolorous ; flesh pallid or pale alutaceous, of a firm, but 
_ cheesy texture ; spores globose, rough, .00025 —.0003’ in diameter, colorless. 
“Ground” in woods. Wilmurt, Herkimer County. G.S. Watkins and 
W. D. Hdmonds. ; . 
Ground under an oak tree. Brighton, Monroe County. G. 7. Fish. 
Both gentlemen from whom I have received specimens of this fungus, speak 
_ of it as growing on the ground, but it is quite probable that it starts from some 
decaying wood or tree root buried in the earth. I have also received a speci- 
men of this plant from Miss M. E. Banning, of Baltimore, Md., who sent it 
under the name here given. 
es, The species seems closely related to P. subgiganteus B & C., but as I am 
unable, from the description of that species, to satisfy myself that our plants 
belong to it, | have thought best to describe them under another name. The 
Baltimore plant has a single pileus seven inches in diameter and four inches 
#) high. The New York specimens are compound, the one from Wilmurt being 
pte ten inches broad and nine inches high, the one from Br ighton, fifteen inches — 
plants. When fresh, they were very much }__... The dimensions of the 
So 
Wilmurt plant, when fresh, were given me by Mr. Edmonds, as follows: yy 
. Bes! with ochre, often crowded and irregular, virgate with appressed fibrils ; 3 
This might easily be mistaken for M. scorodonius, but it is without odor, ig , 
ms broad and six inches high. These are the dimensions of the shrunken, dried — 
