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rich lawns or pastures. It is often found growing on dung in 

 company Avith Payueolus campanulatus. It varies much in size. 

 A small form, fovm.m,ivor^ occurs having the pileus hemispherical 

 and only three or four lines broad. 



Var. pilosella (Agaricus pilosellus Pers.), has both pileus and 

 stem clothed with a minute erect pubescence when moist. A 

 form is sometimes found in which the center of the pileus is 

 brown or blackish-brown. 



Galera teneroides Pk. 



Wood-loving Galera, 



(Twenty-ninth State Museum Report, p. 39.) 



Pileus thin, campanulate or expanded, hygrophanous, brownish- 

 cinnamon and striatulate when moist, paler when dry ; lamellas 

 narrow, close, yellowish-cinnamon ; stem straight, slender, hollow, 

 colored like the pileus ; spores nearly elliptical, subluteu^, .0003 

 to .00035 in. long, .00016 to .0002 broad. 



Pileus 6 to 12 lines broad ; stem 1 to 2 in. long, about half a 

 line thick. Ground, dung and decaying wood and branches in 

 woods. Adirondack mountains and in Albany county. June to 

 September. 



This species is closely related to Galera tener as may be inferred 

 from the name, but it is nevertheless distinct in its more brown 

 or smoky-tinted color, more expanded mature pileus, more narrow 

 lamellse and smaller paler spores. 



Galera ovalis Fr. 



Oval Galera. 



(Hym. Europ., p. 268. Sylloge Vol. v, p. 863.) 



Pileus somewhat membranaceous, oval or campanulate, hygro- 

 phanous, brownish-ferruginous and obscurel}^ striatulate on the 

 margin when moist, paler and even when dry, fragile ; lamellae 

 nearly free, very broad, ventricose, ferruginous ; stem straight, 

 slender, hollow, slightly striate, colored nearly like the pileus ; 

 spores elliptical, dark-ferruginous, .0004 to .0005 in. long, .00025 

 to .0003 broad. 



Pileus 8 to 12 lines broad ; stem 3 to 4 in. long, about 1 line 

 thick. 



Dung. Albany county. June. 



