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lamellae rather narrow and close, tapering toward (>acli end 

 decurrent, whitish, becoming tinged with liesli-color ; stipe 

 short, subequal. solid, concolorous, often eccentric. 



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



Ground in groves and open places. Often csespitose. Al- 

 bany and Catsl\:ill. October. Edible. 



^)(j. Agaeicus j^oveboracexsis n. sjj. 



Pileus fleshy, thin, convex, then expanded or slightly de- 

 pressed, with the margin decurved, dingy white, the surface 

 cracking into areas or concentrically rivulose, sometimes 

 obscurely zonate ; laraella? close, narrow, long-decurrent, some 

 of them forked, white, at length dingy, tinged with yellow or 

 flesh-color ; stipe concolorous with the pileus, equal, solid, 

 smooth, with white mycelium and brittle branching white 

 rootlets. 



Height l'-2', breadth of pileus l'-2', stipe l"-2" thick. 



In woods and pastures, j^orth Elba and Albany, Au- 

 gust-October. 



Gregarious or subcsespitose. Odor of new meal ; taste very 

 bitter ; spores globose, pale flesh-colored. 



Subgenus — Leptonia. 

 Stem with a cartilaginous bark. Margin of pileus at first 

 incurved ; gills separating from the stem. — BerJc. Outl. 



67. Agaeicus seeeulatus Pers. 



Pileus thin, submembranaceous, convex, umbilicate, squam- 

 ulose or streaked with dark fibrils, color various, grayish-brown, 

 cinereous, etc.; lamellae not crowded, attached to but easily 

 separating from the stem, pale flesh- colored, the edge blackish 

 and serrulate ; stipe equal, smooth, hollow, mostly a little 

 paler than the pileus. 



Height 1-1.5', breadth of pUeus 6 -12". 

 Banks by the roadside. North Elba. September, 

 Easily known by the dark-colored serrulate edge of the 

 lamellae. 



Series 3 — Dee:mini. 



Spores ferruginous, sometimes taiony or hrownisTi. 



The spores in this series are not as uniform in color as in the 

 foregoing ones. They must be carefully observed in connection 

 witli the veil and other parts, that the species be not confused 

 with those of the genus Cortinarius. 



Subgenus — Pholiota. 

 Stem furnished with a ring. — BerJc. Outl. 

 [Assem. IS'o. 133.1 12. 



