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brown becoming' darker with age. The stem is two and a half to four cm. long, 

 slender, equal, or slightly tapering upward ; finely striate, minutely scurvy or 

 mealy, at least when young ; hollow, white. The spores are brownish ferruginous 

 with a faint pinkish tint in mass, elliptic, 8-12x6-7/*. Peck. 



Dr. Peck says the distinguishing features of this species are its broadly 

 expanded or plane grayish-brown pileus, with its granulose or mealy surface, its 

 persistently striate margin, and its very narrow gills becoming brownish with age. 

 I have seen the plant growing in the culture beds in the greenhouse of the Ohio 

 State University. It is a beautiful plant. Plants of all ages are shown in Figures 

 224 and 225. 



Ficrm-: 236. Galera crispa. Natural size. Cap ochraceous-brown, 



Galera crispa. Longyear. 



Crispa means crisped; the specific name is based on the peculiar character of 

 the gills whidl are always crisped as soon as the pileus is expanded. 



The pileus is 1.5 to 3.5 cm. broad, membranaceous, persistently conico-com- 

 panulate, subacute, uneven and somewhat rivulose, ochraceous-brown on disk, 



