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narrow or linear, crowded, ascending, nearly free, pale-cinnamon 

 or tawny-ferrug-inous ; stem straight, 'slender, fragile, hollow, 

 minutely striate, sprinkled with minute mealy particles or clothed 

 with a minute villosity, white; spores elliptical, ferruginous, 

 .OO.Jo to .00055 in. long, .0003 to .00035 broad. 



Pileus 6 to 12 lines broad ; stem 2 to 3 in. long, scarcel}^ 1 line 

 thick. 



Dung or rich grassy ground. Albany and Rensselaer counties. 

 June to September. 



This may be se]iarated from the next follo'uing species by its 

 more elongated narrowly conical pileus distinctly striate on the 

 margin and by its narrower linear lamellse. The striations are 

 fine and close and often reach half way to the center of the pileus. 

 In our specimens they are distinct even in the dried plant. "We 

 have seen no specimens having the pileus as dark colored as in 

 the Friesian figure of the moist plant, but many of our American 

 agarics are paler or have paler forms than the European figures 

 indicate for the same species. The hygrophanous character of 

 the pileus is less clearly shown than in Galera tener. As in that 

 species, there are forms in which both pileus and stem are clothed 

 with a minute downy pubescence. When partly dry the pileus 

 feels sticky when pressed between the thumb and lingers. 



Galera tener -VcA'^y. 

 Tender G-aleea, 



(Hym. Europ.. p. 267. Sylloge Vol. v. p. 860.) 



Pileus thin, conical broadly and obtusely conical or campanu- 

 late, hygrophanous, pale-ferruginous or tawny-cinnamon color 

 and striatulate when moist, whitish or creamy-yellow when dr}', 

 often sprinkled with shining atoms ; lamelhe broad, rather close, 

 ascending, adnate, cinnamon color ; stem straight, slender, fragile, 

 hollow, somewhat shining, commonly finely striate, colored like 

 the pileus ; spores elliptical, dark ferruginous, almost rubiginous, 

 .0005 to .00005 in. long, .0003 to .0004 broad. 



Pileus 4 to 10 lines broad ; stem 1.5 to 3 in. long, scarcely 1 

 line thick. 



Dung and rich gra-ss}' ground. Common. »liine to September. 



This is our most common species of (xalera. It sometimes 

 grows in great abundance where cattle have been yarded and in 



