Ochrosporse 



P. togllla'ris Bull. togula, a little cloak. From the ample ring. Phoiiota. 

 PileilS i >2 in. broad, pallid ochraceous, fleshy, soft, bell-shaped then 

 expanded, obtuse, orbicular, witJiont stria, smooth. Flesh thin, soft, 

 becoming yellow. Stem 3-4 in. long, 2 lines thick, tubed, rigid, equal, 

 cylindrical, rough with stiff fibers, naked and becoming yellow at the 

 apex, becoming dingy brown downward. Ring medial, more than I in. 

 distant, entire, spreading-reflexed. Gills adnato-separating, ventricose, 

 crowded, narrowed in front, becoming yellow, at length pale rust-color, 

 never becoming dingy brown. 



Protean, slender, very variable in stature, growing in troops, b. More 

 slender, but densely gregarious, with the wholly pallid smooth stem 

 thinner, often flexuous. This form is exactly A. mesodactylus Berk. 

 c. Very small. Pileus I in. Stem I in. or a little more, scarcely I 

 line thick, very flexuous, becoming rust-color. Stevenson. 



Spores elliptical, 8x3.5^ Massee. 



New Jersey, on decayed chips mixed with dirt. May, 1898. E. B. 

 Sterling. 



Not previously reported. 



The specimens sent were tested and found to be of good quality. 



** Phae'oti. Spores fuscous ferruginous (dingy rust-color). 



P. du'ra Bolt. durus, hard. Pileus 3 in. and more broad, tawny, 

 tan-color, becoming dingy brown, fleshy, somewhat compact, convexo- 

 plane, obtuse, smooth, then cracked into patches, margin even. Stem 

 commonly curt, 2 in. long, about % in. thick, stuffed, even solid, hard, 

 becoming silky-even, then longitudinally cracked when dry, thickened 

 at the apex, mealy and more than usually widened into the pileus, vary- 

 ing ventricose and irregularly-shaped. Ring torn. Gills adnate, striato- 

 decurrent with a tooth, ventricose, % in. broad, livid then dingy rust- 

 color. 



The stem is abundantly furnished with fibrillose rootlets at the base. 

 Although very closely allied to A. praecox, it is readily distinguished 

 by its rust-color or brown-rust spores. Stevenson. 



Spores 9x5/x W.G.S.; 8-9x5-61". Massee. 



Haddonfield, N. J. June to October. Florist's garden, Mcllvaine. 



After rains P. dura appears, solitary, from spring to autumn. The 



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