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upward, lirm, solid, fibrillose, slightly mealy -squamulose at 

 the top, whitish or subconcoloroiis. 



Height l'-2', breadth of pileus 6"- 18", diameter of stipe 

 2"- 3". Under pine trees. Albany. October and November. 



A gregarious plant, with a meal -like flavor. The margin of 

 the pileus sometimes has a paler appearance than the rest, 

 from the absence or diminished density of the squamulse, 



*20. Agakicus peesoxatus Fr. 



Pileus thick, fleshy, convex, even, smooth, moist, pallid or 

 cinereous, tinged with pale violet or lilac ; lamellae close, nar- 

 row, rounded at the inner extremity, narrowed outwardly, 

 whitish, often tinged with pink or violet ; stipe stout, solid, 

 whitish or concolorous tibrillose, slightly thickened at the 

 base. 



Height 2'-4', breadth of pileus 2'- 5', diameter of stipe 6" or 

 more. 



Open woods. West Albany and Catskill Mountains. Oc- 

 tober. Edible. 



21. Agaricus alboflavidus n. sp. 



Pileus at first convex, with the margin incurved, then 

 expanded or slightly depressed, moist, smooth, even, white, 

 in exposed places becoming yellowish ; lamellae close, nar- 

 row, thin, emarginate and decurrent with a tooth ; stipe 

 whitish, equal, solid, striate-fibrillose, with a thin, tough 

 cuticle. 



Height 3'- 4', breadth of pileus 2-3', stipe about 3" thick. 



Ground in woods and open fields. Sandlake and North 

 Elba. August. 



The pileus is sometimes slightly and broadly umbonate. 



Subgenus — Clitocybe. 



Stem elastic, with a fibrous outer coat ; gills decurrent, or 

 acutely adnate. — BerJc. Outl. 



The form of the pileus in this subgenus is commonly that of 

 an inverted cone, or, from the depression of the center in the 

 thin species, of a funnel. The lamella? are decurrent or acutely 

 attached to the stem, which is of a soft or spongy texture with- 

 in, and destitute of an annulus. The veil, which is marginal 

 and more or less perceptible in the preceding subgenus, in this 

 is seldom noticeable. 



