Agaricaceee 



Hygrophoras. bell-shaped then convex, smooth, striate and viscid when moist, not 

 cracked when dry. Flesh thin, everywhere equal, white, hygrophanous. 

 Stem 2 in. or a little more long, 1-2 lines thick, tubed, equal, even, 

 smooth, tense and straight. Gills decurrent, distant, thin, scarcely 

 connected by veins, arcuate, quite entire. 



Thinner, tougher, and later than H. virgineus, etc. Being hygroph- 

 anous the pileus is shining white when dry. Very tender forms occur. 



In pastures. Stevenson. 



Spores /X4/U, Cooke. 



The H. niveus, H. virgineus, "Ivory Caps" as M. C. Cooke calls 

 them, are pretty and plentiful in some sections. In the West Virginia 

 mountains, along grass-grown road-sides, their purity and exquisite 

 perfume attracted me in 1 88 1. I have them and a few others to thank 

 for seducing me into becoming a mycophagist. I think of them affec- 

 tionately. I have seldom met with them since. They are found on 

 lawns and in pastures and on grassy edges of woods, early in spring and 

 late in autumn. 



H. boreal'is Pk. northern. PileilS thin, convex or expanded, 

 smooth, moist, white, sometimes striatulate. Gills arcuate-decurrent, 

 distant, white. Stem smooth, equal or tapering downward, stuffed, 

 white. 



Plant 2 in. high. PileilS 8-12 lines broad. Stem I line thick. 



Ground in woods. Croghan and Copake. September and October. 



The species is related to H. niveus but the pileus is not viscid. Peck, 

 26th Rep. N. Y. State Bot. 



Found at Mt. Gretna, Pa., October 20, 1898, ground in mixed 

 woods. The cap is white, silky, smooth, not viscid. Stem likewise. 



A neat species pleasant in every way. 



** Gills ventricose, adnate, etc. 



H. dis'tans Berk. distant (of the gills). PileilS about 2 in. broad, 

 white, with a silky luster, here and there stained with brown, somewhat 

 fleshy, plane or depressed, viscid. Stem white above, gray below, and 

 attenuated, not spotted. Gills decurrent, few, very distant, somewhat 

 ventricose, pure white then tinged with ash-color, interstices obscurely 

 wrinkled. 



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