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and clothed with a tawny villus. Has much the aspect of 
M. plancus-: 
3. M. stmits, Berk. and Curt. ;—pileo membranaceo plicato 
opaco albido ; stipite gracili elongato nitido fusco ; lamellis pancis 
latis adnexis venoso-connexis albidis. Ad terram. July, Aug. 
ill. 
Gregarious. Cap 2-3 lines broad, dull white, smooth, covered 
with minute wrinkles. Stem 2 in. long, very slender, hardly 
pulverulent. Gills ventricose. Allied to M. hematocephalus, F'r., 
rom which it is easily distinguished, at least by color 
Soule pena (No. 2 of these ae ibe ) I find also 
at Society Hill, S. C.; sometimes having a stem ong with 
acap 12-15 lines broad. Mr. Olney has also sent it ious Rhode 
Island. 
74. M. Graminum, Berk. !—Ad folia graminum, herbas, etc. in 
hortis. June. Society Hill. 
75. M. Vattuantu, F'r.—Ad cortices emortuos, e. g. Vitis. Aug. 
N. and S. Car 
76. Me piancus, F'r.—In sylvis acerosis. R. Island; Mr. Olney. 
Tinus Raveneu, Berk. and Curt, ;—pileo umbilicato 
subm n O striato squarnuloso maculato ; stipite curto tenui 
SetiaG aivaomcon, lamellis tenuibus subdistantibus dente-de 
currentibus venoso-connexis. Ad lignum putridum in humidis. 
pril. Santee Canal, S.C. Mr. Ravenel. 
Scattered. Cap 1-14 in. broad, plano-corvex, ni clothed 
with minute rufous oly scales which are crowded and conflu- 
ent inthe centre. Ster in. long, 1 line shige solid, white, 
with rufous scales. Gills a slightly erose. A very pretty 
Species allied to L. tigrinus, but much more delicate. The pileus 
is thin, and in consequence when dry it has an hygrophanous 
t. 
78. L. cesprrosus, Berk.! in Lea’s Catalogue.—Very abundant 
in N. and S. Car: from July to Nov. ; at the base of stumps a 
on buried roots. When dry it has a "Icind of acid-sweetish odor 
not unlike that about a cider-press. 
79. Panus porsauis, Fr.—Ad lignum mortuum Pini [et Liqui- 
dambaris ; Autumno, ‘Hieme. N. and S. Car 
80. Xerorus peeener, Fr.—Ad terram sneitinceas inter mus- 
cos. June. Hillsborough, N. C. 
81. Lenzires uncuuzrormis, Berk. and Curt. ;—albida lignea 
Subtriquetra inzequabilis glabrata nitida; lamellis ligneis latis po- 
Toso-ramosis.—Ad lignum aridum. Wilmington, N. Car. 
ap 2 in. broad, lk in. long, } thick, rather elongated, villous 
when young but becoming smooth and ‘shining ; : surface unequal, 
