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The gills are almost free, adnexed to 

 the top of the cone, linear, very narrow, 

 tawny or ferruginous. 



The stem is three to four inches long, 

 hollow, slightly tapering upward, 

 straight, fragile, white pruinose, whit- 

 ish. Spores are elliptical, 11-12x5-6//, 



This plant resembles G. ovalis, from 

 which it can be distinguished by its 

 linear ascending gills and the absence 

 of a veil. 



Found on dung and in richly manured 

 pastures, from July to frost. 



Galera Kellermani. Pk. sp. nov. 



Kellermani is named in honor of Dr. 

 W. A. Kellerman, Ohio State Universi- 

 ty- 



The pileus is very thin, subovate or 

 subconic, soon becoming plane or nearly 

 so ; striatulate nearly to the 

 center when moist, more or 

 less wavy and persistently 

 striate on the margin when 

 dry, minutely granulose or 

 mealy when young, unpol- 

 ished when mature, often 

 with a few scattered floccose 

 squamules when young, and 

 sometimes with a few slight 

 fragments of a veil adhering 

 to the margin which appears 

 as if finely notched by the 

 projecting ends of the gills ; 

 watery-brown when moist, 

 grayish-brown when dry, a 

 little darker in the center ; 

 taste slight, odor faint, like 

 that of decaying wood. 



The gills are thin, close, 

 adnate, a delicate cinnamon- 



Ficure 224. Galera Kellermani. Showing 

 young plants. 



Figure 225. Galera Kellermani. Showing older plants. 



