REPORT OF THE BOTANIST. 55 
AGARICUS HORDUS FY’. 
Although the specimens formerly referred to this species agree in most 
respects with the description there are certain discrepancies, which upon further 
investigation induce me to believe it to be a distinet species. I would, there- 
fore, give it the following name and description : 
AGaricus (TRICHOLOMA) PREFOLIATUS 7. sp. 
Pileus thin, slightly convex or expanded, a little moist in wet weather, virgate 
with innate brownish fibrils, dark-cinereous or grayish-brown, usually a little 
darker on the disk, the margin sometimes revolute ; lamellze very broad, sub- 
distant, rounded behind, sometimes united*at the point of attachment, venose- 
connected and somewhat transversely striate, often split transversely, the edge 
uneven or eroded, white ; stem equal, firm, fibrous, fibrillose-striate or rimose, 
stuffed or hollow, white or whitish ; spores broadly elliptical, generally uninu- 
cleate, .00025’—.00035’ long; flesh white, odor pleasant, anise-like. 
Plant 4’-6 high, pileus 3-5’ broad, stem 5! —10' thick. 
Ground and decaying hemlock wood in woods and groves. June and Aug. 
The pileus is often irregular and sometimes eccentric. The lamelle are 
very broad, sometimes a half an inch or more, and usually much torn. The 
plant is scattered in its mode of growth, but few imdividuals occurring in.a 
place. The obscure striations of the lamelle are retained in the dried speci- 
mens. 
AGARICUS CoRTICOLA Sehum. 
This plant revives on the application of moisture, thus indicating an 
affinity with species of Marasmius. 
AGARICUS CALLISTUS PA. 
This beautiful Agaric grows on decaying wood in damp places as well as 
mm exsiccated water-holes. 
CorTINARIUS CoRRUGATUS PA. 
In woods. Gansevoort and Sandlake. Aug. 
The color of the pileus varies from yellow to reddish-yellow or ochraceous, 
the lamellz are sometimes minutely transversely venose, and the stem is 
slightly fibrillose, and sometimes sprinkled above with yellowish grains or 
squamules, 
PAxILLus Porosus Berk. 
Fine specimens were found at Brewerton, growing on the ground in woods 
and on mounds of earth. ‘Che plant emits an unpleasant earthy odor. I 
have not found the pileus viscid, and conclude that the part of the descrip- 
tion ‘viscid when moist” is a mistake. This species is easily known by its 
porous hymenium, which connects it with the genus Boletus. Pawillus flavi- 
dus Berk. is probably not distinct from Giomphidius rhodowanthus Schw., 
which occurs within our limits. The species is ambiguous between Paxillus 
and Gomphidius, but from the character of its spores it seems nearer the 
