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specimens appear especially in the late summer and early fall. This 

 dangerous agaric is also found in other areas of the lawn, especially 

 under the hemlock and occasionally under a white pine. Of late these 

 Amanitas have produced caps which are more tan than orange in 

 color, but the volva is typical of A. muscaria. 



This blue spruce harbors numerous other agarics beneath its 

 branches. The Inocybe with nodulose spores mentioned above, has 

 also been gathered here. Clitocyhe infundibuliformis appeared in the 

 latter part of June 1936, and was found again in June 1937, and 

 May 1938. It has appeared since then, but no record has been kept. 

 The identification of a small gray Clitocybe has so far been doubtful. 

 Recorded as Clitocybe pinophila in 1934, other specimens gathered 

 since then, indicate it may be C. vilescens. A species of Psalliota 

 which appeared for the first time in the late summer of 1940, ap- 

 peared again in September 1941. I am inclined to think this is P. 

 abruptibulba. The fallen spruce needles, during a wet period in 

 1940, developed a conspicuous white mycelium which produced 

 brown sporophores two to three inches tall, with upward tapering 

 stipes, covered especially in the lower half with a dense white tomen- 

 tum, velvety to the touch, often binding several sporophores to- 

 gether at the base. This is Collybia (Marasmius, according to Pen- 

 nington^) confluens. The fetid Marasmius (M. foetidiis) appeared 

 twice on the lawn near the blue spruce ; once in 1935, and again in 

 1937. 



In the rear of the house, an apple tree occupies the center of the 

 yard, and for several years troops of Psilocybe foenescii were con- 

 tinually in evidence, but these have now disappeared. No other fungi 

 of interest have appeared in this area except a Psathyrella, single 

 specimens of which appeared several years in succession. 



The following fungi have appeared only once : an Entoloma (spe- 

 .cies undetermined), Naucoria semi-orbicularis, HypJioIoma incer- 

 tuin, and Lycoperdon Wrightii. Mufinits elegans (incorrectly re- 

 ported as M. caninus in 1935), Russula joetens, Coprinus micaceus, 

 Hypholoma sublateritium, Giiepinia (sp.) and a Lachnea-like As- 

 comycete {Patella albospadicea ?) all recorded in 1934, have not 

 reappeared. A Hebeloma was found recently near the place where 

 the so-called Pholiota aggericola appeared in 1934. 



^ Pennington, L. H. New York species of Marasmius, N. Y. State Museum 

 Bull. 179; Report of the State Botanist 1914. 



