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finally went to pieces. They should be gathered young and 
cooked within a few hours after picking. 
e common ink-cap grows in close clusters on lawns, appear- 
ing about the same time with the field mushro t is muc 
larger than the glistening ink-cap and is gray or Pca above 
with a few scales on the very top of the cap, and white below, 
but soon becomes black and melts away. 
The “ shaggy-mane”’ is a very striking object when it appears 
on lawns, being cylindrical in shape, with shaggy, white upper 
surface and white or pinkish gills, which melt into an inky fluid 
at maturity. This is the largest and best, but also the rarest, of 
the ink-caps. 
The many-headed clitocybe (Pl. 54, fig. 4) occurs in dense 
clusters on lawns, especially in rather long grass, and is usually 
found in great abundance when found at all. Its flesh is very 
firm, with a slight oily flavor, and it may be kept for several days 
ithout deteriorating. t is a valuable species and worth 
ane ng. 
The rough-stemmed boletus (Pl. 54, fig. 5) is a very handsome 
edible species and the most abundant of the group of fleshy fungi 
having tubes instead of gills on the under side of the cap. The 
majority of these are edible, but they are rather difficult to dis- 
tinguish, and a few species are considered dangerous. The Ger- 
mans collect many of these edible forms under the name of 
“ steinpilz.”’ 
The equestrian tricholoma (Pl. 54, fig. 3), occurring in sandy 
soil under or near evergreen trees, is too rare in this region to 
be of i The specimens figured were collected in New 
Jerse 
The honey-colored armillaria, or honey agaric (Pl. 54, fig. 2), 
occurs in great profusion in the autumn in this locality on and 
about old stumps and attached to buried roots of both deciduous 
and evergreen trees, on which it grows as a parasite. It is well 
known to the Italians, being common also in Europe, and is 
eagerly collected by them here. I recently saw one in the hem- 
lock grove with over a bushel of the sporophores of this fungus. 
The “brick-top,” or perplexing hypholoma (Pl. 54, fig. 1), 
