156 THIRTY-FIFTH REPORT ON THE STATE MUSEUM. 
When young this Agaric closely resembles the preceding one from 
which it is distinguished by its larger size, more scaly and less white 
pileus, larger and more persistent annulus and larger spores. The 
cuticle sometimes remains entire and sometimes cracks in a radiating 
manner toward the margin, thereby giving to the pileus a sort of 
fibrillose or virgate appearance. The annulus sometimes partly breaks 
from its attachment to the stem and becomes almost movable. 
AGARICUS FELINUS, Pers. 
Cat Agaric. 
Pileus thin, subcampanulate or convex, suoumbonate,-adorned with 
numerous swbtomentose or floccose blackish-brown scales; lamellz close, 
free, white ; stem slender, rather long, equal or slightly tapering up- 
ward, hollow, clothed with soft loose floccose filaments, brown, an- 
nulus slight, evanescent; spores elliptical, -00U25'—-0003' long, 
-00016’—- 0002, broad. A epee 
Plant 2'—3-5' high; pileus -5’—1-5’ broad; stem 1’—2” thick. 
Woods. Adirondack mountains. August and September. 
This is not a common species with us, having occurred thus far 
only in the woods of our mountainous regions. The scales or adorn- 
ments of the pileus are similar in character to those of A. Friesit, 
but are much darker in color.. Fries unites this Agaric with A. 
clypeolarius as a variety, but says that it is so frequent and so con- 
stant in the pine woods of Europe that it deserves to be noticed sepa- 
rately. It is easily distinguished from A. rubrotinctus by the darker 
color of the scales of the pileus, by the loose fioccose filaments that 
clothe the brown stem, by the fugacious annulus and the smaller 
spores, 
AGARICUS FUSCOSQUAMEUS, Pk. 
Brown-scaled Agaric. 
Pilens rather thin, hemispherical or convex, subumbonate, adorned 
with numerous substrigose, erect or reflexed blackish-brown scales; 
lamellz close, free, white ; stem short, rather stout, equal, hollow or 
stuffed with a cottony pith, clothed with loose soft dingy floccose fila- 
ments, bulbous, brown; annulus slight, evanescent; spores narrowly 
elliptical, -00025’—-0003' long, -00012’—-00015” broad. 
Plant 2’—3/ high ; pileus 1-5’—2-5’ broad ; stem 3”—4" thick. 
Pine and hemlock woods. Croghan. September. 
This species is closely related to the preceding one, and might, per- 
haps, be considered a variety of it. It has the same color, but 1s dis- 
