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Plant cajspitose-iinbricating or solitary, l'-3' broad. 

 Trunks of deciduous trees in woods. Common. October 

 and November. 



The color of the pileus is a peculiar grayish-brown, vari- 

 ously nioditied with yellow and greenish or olivaceous hues. 

 The edge of the lamellae is sometimes discolored and slightly 

 lioccose. 



Series 2 — Hypoehodii. 



Spores salmon-colored. 



Subgenus — Pluteus. 

 Hymenophorum distinct from the stem. Veil none. — Berk. 



Outl. 

 In this subgenus the lamella? are generally free, and at length 

 flesh-colored, the pileus convex and the stem solid. 



Svxopsis or THE Species. 



Pileus bro wu ; lamellsB uarrower toward the stipe GO. 



Pileus brown ; lamellte broader toward the stipe Gl. 



Pileus not brown, more or less yellow Gli. 



60. Agaeicus ceevinus ScTiaff. 



Pileus fleshy, at first campanulate, then expanded, fibrillose, 

 grayish-brown, sometimes splitting into cracks or chinks ; 

 lamellae moderately distant, rather broad, a little narrowed 

 toward the stipe, free, white, changing to flesh-color ; stipe 

 equal or slightly tapering upward, firm, solid, striated- 

 fibrous, blackish-brown or whitish. 



Height 3-6', breadth of pileus 2'- 4', stipe 3"-6" thick. 



On or about old stumps in open places, groves and borders 

 of woods. Common. May -October. 



Sometimes the stipe is nearly smooth and white, at others 

 it is quite dark and fibrous or scaly. 



61. Agaeicus iSTAis'us Pers. 



Pileus convex, rather thin, fibrillose or somewhat mealy, 

 brown ; lamellse rather broad, a little narrower outwardly, 

 white, becoming pale flesh-color, free ; stipe white, firm, stri- 

 ate, solid. 



Height l'-2', breadth of pileus about 1'. 



On decaying wood in groves. West Albany, October. 



62. Agaeicus leonixus Scliceff. 



Pileus thin, submembranaceous, convex, becoming ex- 

 panded, smooth, subhygrophanous, striatulate on the mar- 

 gin ; lamellse rather broad, free, at length flesh-colored ; stipe 

 wMte, solid, firm, slightly striate, equal. 



