Ql Report OF the State Botat^ist. 



The species have been arranged by Fries in three groups or 

 sections. Of the first section we have six representatives, of the 

 second, three, and of the third, one. An additional section has 

 been formed which contains two species One-half of our twelve 

 species appear to be peculiar to this country. 



* Synopsis of the Species. 



Plants growing among mosses 1 



Plants not growing among mosses 4 



1. Pileus commonly 4 to 6 lines broad 2 



1. Pileus commonly 9 to 12 lines broad Sphagnorum. 



2. Margin of the pileus naked or not fibrillose 3 



2. Margin of the pileus adorned with white fibrils . . . rufipes. 



3. Stem pruinose at the top Hypnorum, 



3. Stem naked at the top aquatilis. 



4. Plant growing on dung or in grassy places 5 



4. Plant growing in uncultivated places 8 



5. Pileus plicate-sulcate coprinoides. 



5. Pileus not plicate-sulcate 6 



6. Pileus ferruginous when moist ovalis. 



0. Pileus paler, yellowish or tawny-cinnamon when moist. . 7 



7. Pileus narrowly conical, striate when dry lateritia. 



7. Pileus broadly conical, not striate when dry tener. 



8. Plant growing on hulls of buckwheat sulcatipes. 



8. Plant having some other habitat 9 



9. Pileus pale-yellow . flava. 



9. Pileus some other color 10 



10. Lamellas narrow, close teneroides. 



10. Lamella) broad, subdistant inculta. 



CoNocEPHAL-E. Pileus conic -campanulate, hygrophanous, 

 nearly even, when dry sprinkled with soft atoms; stem straight; 

 lamellfB ascending, inserted in the top of the cone, somewhat 

 crowded. Veil none. 



Galera lateritia Ft-. 



Bkick-red Galeka. 



(Hym. Europ., p. 287. SyUoge Vol. v, p. 860.) 



Pileus thin, narrowly conical or acorn-shaped, often becoming 

 campanulate, hygrophanous, yellowish when moist, whitish or 

 ochraceous when dry, finely striate on the margin; lamellae 



