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(Agaricus.) 



campestris, Zinn. On rotten clung. Cincinnali, April 

 18, 1842.* 



sylvaticus, jPr. Waynesville, Sept. 8, 1844. 



fabaceus, N. Sp, On the ground, amongst dead leaves 

 in open woods. Wa}'nesville, Sept. 10, 1844.^ 



semiglobatus, Batsch. Amongst old cow dung. Cin- 

 cinnati, Oct. 14, 1841. 



fascicularis, Huds. Waynesville. 



lateritus, Schseff. On rotten wood. Cincinnati, Dec. 

 9, 1841. 



velutinus, Pers. Waynesville, Sept. 8, 1844. 



slipatus, Pers. On the ground. Cincinnati, May 21, 

 1841. 



Fimiputris, Bolt. On dung. Cincinnati, July 8, 1842. 



campanulatus, Linn. Cincinnati. With the foregoing 

 species. 



CoPRINUS. 



fuscescens, Fr. Between the timbers of a pier. Cin- 

 cinnati, Nov. 6, 1841. 



micaceus, Fr. At the foot of a dead poplar. Cincin- 

 nati, May 28, 1841. 



nychthemerus, Fr. Waynesville. 



plicatilis, /y. In grass fields. Waynesville, Aug. 12, 

 1844. 



' Six days after the specimens were collected and put to dry, on opening 

 the paper they had the smell, and produced the sensation on the eyes and nose 

 of hartshorn. This vanished in a short time on exposure to air. 



^ Ag. (Pratella) fabaceus : pileo tenui subcarnoso, umbonato. albo, demuni 

 piano; stipite glabro, fibrilloso, basi bulbosa excepte aequali, albo; velo amplo, 



extus floccoso ; lamellis confestis, tenuissimus, liberis, brunneis. Pileus four 



to five inches across, thin, almostsubmembranaceous,umbonate, conical when 

 young, becoming nearly plane as it expands, white, viscid when moist; epi- 

 dermis smooth, tough, feeling like fine kid leather, turning yellow when 

 bruised; stem three to four inches high, one-third of an inch thick, white, 

 smooth, with die exception of a iey/ fibrilla, equal except at the base ; veil 

 large, at first covering the gills and connecting the margin with the stem, 

 white, externally flocose; gills crowded, very thin, not ventricose, free, brown 

 when young, then darker brown, at length almost black like the dark part of 



a bean flower. A fine species allied to .Bg. ai-vensis. When young it has 



a peculiar, but not unpleasant smell. 

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