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its tawny cap upturned at the edge, showing the creamy white 

 tubes beneath, and nearby on a piece of rotting wood, the erect, 

 gelatinous sporophores, orange in color and not more than three- 

 fourths of an inch tall, of a Guepinia. A solitary grayish brown 

 Agaric with a cap two and one half inches in diameter and a 

 stipe three and one half inches high, rooting at the base, showed 

 yellowish brown spores under the microscope, but could not be 

 identified. It was found September 23. A second search beneath 

 the porch on October 28, yielded another brown-spored Agaric 

 growing in a cluster of about ten specimens (caespitose habit) in 

 approximately the same spot as the earlier solitary specimen, 

 but although the color of the cap was somewhat similar, these 

 later plants were smaller and more slender. Doubt as to the 

 presence of an annulus on the stipe prevents me from placing 

 this latter specimen in its proper genus. I think it is either 

 Pholiota aggericola or a Cortinarius. 



■ Five interesting species were found growing under evergreen 

 trees and shrubbery. Besides the Amanita already mentioned as 

 growing under the blue spruce, a tree about 20 years old, I found 

 Boletus edulis, two specimens on September 15, Clitocybe pino- 

 phila, tentatively identified, on September 30 and October 14, 

 and a white spored Agaric with a shining chestnut brown cap 

 when moist, most likely a Collybia. Two species of Inocybe ap- 

 peared during September and continued to appear throughout 

 October. The one, which grows on bare soil beneath a rhodo- 

 dendron shrub, I have identified finally from Peck's Monograph 

 on the Inocybaceae (State Botanist's Report of New York, 

 1909, pg. 48) as Inocybe infelix; the other growing beneath a 

 hemlock, I was inclined at first to consider the rare Inocybe 

 agglutinata, but believe now that it is Inocybe eutheloides. 



The delicate little reddish-orange 2Iycena acicula with a 

 stipe slender as a hair, found in September among moss in a 

 shaded part of the lawn and an abnormal form of Clitocybe 

 laccata complete the collection. The neighboring lawn yielded 

 the edible mushroom, Agaricus campestris, two species of Lepi- 

 ota, Paxillus involutus, and a white Clavaria with numerous 

 solitary sporophores, forking slightly at the tip, about one inch 

 tall. 



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