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equal, liollow, clothed with a dense grayish velvety tomen- 

 turn ; plant often csespitose. 



Height 3'- 5', breadth of pileus 8"- 18". 



Woods. Sandlake and Adirondack Mountains. July- 

 October. 



*3. Maeasmius plancus Ft. 



Pileus thin, expanded or slightly depressed, sometimes 

 uneven and striatulate, dull rufous when moist, paler when 

 dry, the disk often a little darker ; lamellae distant, rounded 

 at the inner extremity and separating from the stem, dull 

 yellowish ; stipe firm, often compressed, especially at the top, 

 stuffed or hollow, concolorous, whitish-pubescent. 



Height 2-4', breadth of pileus about 1'. 



Woods. Common. June -August. 



4. Makasmius scorodonius Ft. 



Pileus thin, submembranaceous, expanded, subrugulose, 

 grayish-rufous, the disk a little darker ; lamellse very narrow, 

 close, rounded at the inner extremity, subfree, whitish or 

 cream-colored ; stipe slender, tough, smooth, shining, hollow, 

 reddish-brown, paler at the top ; plant with a fetid odor. 



Height 1-2', breadth of pileus 4"- 6". 



On sticks and decaying wood. Sandlake. August. 



The odor resembles that of skunk-cabbage. 



*5. Maeasmius Rotula Fr. 



Pileus membranaceous, dry, convex or expanded, umbili- 

 cate, smooth, radiate-sulcate, whitish ; lamellae few, distant, 

 broad, whitish, attached to a free collar surrounding the stem ; 

 stipe slender, tough, smooth, shining, black, paler at the top, 

 hollow. 



Height l'-2', breadth of pileus 3"- 6". 



On sticks, dead leaves, etc. Common. June - September. 



6. Maeasmius subvenosus n. S'X). 



Pileus membranaceous, dry, convex, subumbilicate, radiate- 

 sulcate, smooth, white or yellowish ; lamella3 few, distant, 

 sometimes branched and subvenose, concolorous, attached to 

 the stipe ; stipe tough, smooth, shining, brown, paler above, 

 hollow. 

 i Height 8"- 12", breadth of pileus 2"- 4". 



On dead herbaceous stems and leaves. Center. October. 



Closely related to M. ejnpTiyllus, from which it diffV^rs in its 

 smooth stem. (Plate 6, iigs. i5-21.) 



