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edge, pallid, then brownish ; stem equal, solid, silky-fibrillose, 

 colored like, the pileus ; spores subelliptical, ^roo" ^o^^g- 



Plant 2' high, pilens 1' broad, stem l"-'2" thick. Sandy soil 

 about pine trees. Saratoga. October. 



Readil}^ known by the thin margin extending beyond the lamellae. 

 It has the taste and odor of radishes. 



Agaeicus (Hebeloma) mutatus n. sp. 



Pileus thin, firm, convex or broadly conical, gibbous or broadly 

 umbonate, rough with squarrose fasciculate, floccose scales, which 

 at length disappear except on the disk, dark brown ; lamellae 

 broad, close, rounded and very deeply emarginate behind, attached 

 by the extreme upper part only, dark ferruginous brown, edge 

 whitish ; stem slender, equal, solid, firm, floccose-scaly, often curved 

 at the base, colored like the pileus ; spores elliptical, ^jwo' long. 



Plant 2-3' high, pileus 6"-12" broad, stem 1" thick. Damp 

 ground in woods. Catskill mountains. July. 



The changed appearance produced by the disappearance of the 

 scales suggests the specific name. 



Agaeicus (Ceepidotus) doesalis n. sp. 



Pileus fleshy, sessile, dimidiate or subreniform, flat or slightly 

 depressed behind, with a decurved slightly striate mai;gin, slightly 

 fibrillose-tomentose, distinctly tomentose at the point of attach- 

 ment, reddish yellow; lamellae close, ventricose, rounded behind, 

 subemarginate, converging to a w^hitish, villous, lateral space, pale 

 ochraceous brown ; spores globose, ^oVo i^ diameter. 



Pileus 8"-15" broad. Old logs in woods. Greig. September. 



Allied to A. putrigena B. & C, but it is not imbricated, and 

 difi'ers in color, size of spores, etc. In general appearance it bears 

 some resemblance to Panus dorsalis, 



Agaeicus mollis Schceff'. 



Old logs and rotten wood. Common. July, September. 



Agaeicus vaeiabilis Pers. 



Dead trunks of mountain maple, Acer spicatum. Indian Lake, 

 Hamilton county. October. 



Agaeicus haustellaeis Fr. 



On prostrate trunks of poplars. Thurman, "Warren county. 

 October. A small form. 



Agaeicus (Ceepidotus) Geeigensis n. sp. 



Pileus submembranaceous, convex, dimidiate, hygrophanous, 

 grayish cinnamon color and striatulate when moist, silkj^-fibrillose 



