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Cap 2-3 in. broad, shining, from pale becoming livid or liver 

 colored, smooth, margin thin. Flesh white, 2-3 lines thick in 

 the centre. Lamellae white (becoming discolored by the pale 

 cinnamon colored spores), unequal, numerous but not crowded, 

 yentricose, 3 lines wide, free and rounded at base, leaving a deep 

 impression around the stipe. Stipe rather brittle, 2-3 in. long, 

 about 3 lines thick, smooth and shining, somewhat thickened at 

 base. Spores oval. Tasie and smell disagreeable, but weak. 



50. A. sinuatus, Fr. — Rhode Island. Olney. 



51. A. camphoratus, Fr. — Ad terrain in umbrosis. June, July. 

 Society Hill. Item, Santee Canal. Mr. Ravenel. 



Sept. Society Hill. 



Wulf. — Li sylvis humidis inter folia. July 



speci 



53. A. penetrans, Fr. — Ad truncos dejectos corrumpentes. 

 June. Society Hill. Item, Santee Canal. Ravenel. 



54. A. lanuginosus, Bull. — Ad humum lignosam in sylvis hu- 

 midis. May. Society Hill. 



55. A. semiorbicularis, Bui I. — Ad terram fimosam. Aestate. 

 Society Hill and Hillsborough. 



56. A. vervacti, Fr. — Rhode Island. Mr. Olney. 



57. A. fabaceus, Berk. ! — Ad terram pinguem. Jnly-Nov. 

 Santee Canal ; Mr. Ravenel ; and Society Hill. First discovered 

 in Ohio by Mr. Lea. This is among the most delicious species 

 for the table. The fresh 



of peach kernels or bitter almonds, which are nearly lost in being 

 cooked. 



58. A. (Psalliota) Achimenes, Berk, and Curt. ; — pileo piano 

 glabro nitido verrucis exasperato ; stipite tioccoso-farcto ; lamellis 

 liberis ex albido cinereis. — Ad terram. June. Santee Canal. 

 Mr. Ravenel. Item, Society Hill. 



Solitary. Cap 4-6 in. broad, pallid or ochroleucous, smooth 

 like kid leather, but studded with warty excrescences especially 

 towards the centre. Stipe 4-0 in. high, 3-4 lines thick, white, 

 stuffed with floccose fibres, furnished towards the apex with a 

 targe deflexed ring. Gills broad, crowded at first, whitish, then 

 cinereous and fuscous, free. Spores brownish, oval or ovate.— A 

 splendid species allied to the preceding, but differing in its paler 

 spores, warty cap, ample ring, etc. 



59. A. lacrymabundus, Bull— Ad latera fossarum. Sept. San- 

 tee Canal. Mr. Ravenel. 



60. A. velutinus, Pers.— Ad terram humidam, &c. Apr., Sept. 

 Santee Canal. Mr. Ravenel. 



