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when drj ; lamellae snbdistant, free, grayish or pallid becoming 

 dingy ilesh- colored ; stem lateral, short, solid, curved, fibrillose 

 toward the base, springing from an abundant, white, radiating 

 mycelium which sometimes creeps over the matrix to a considerable 

 distance ; spores subglobose, irregular, iiesh-colored, about -g-cnro' 

 long. 



Pileus 5"-10" broad, stem scarcely more than 1" long. Yery 

 rotten, mossy logs in woods. Greig. September. 



The short stem is sometimes compressed in the middle so that 

 it appears to be enlarged both above and below. This species 

 belongs to the second division of the subgenus Crepidotus as 

 characterized by Fries in the Epicrisis, and to the subgenus Clau- 

 dojoiis proposed by W. Gr. Smith, except that the lamellse are free, 

 neither sinuate nor decurrent. It is manifestly related to A. 

 lus. 



Agabicus (Pilosace) eximius 71. sp. 



Pileus fleshy, thin, convex or broadly campanulate, at length 

 expanded and subumbonate, smooth, dark sooty brown ; lamellae 

 close, broad, ventricose, rounded behind, free, dull red or brownish 

 pink, then browm ; stem slender, hollow, a little thicker at the base, 

 dull red ; spores elliptical, -^^^ long. 



Plant l'»high, pileus 3"-6" broad, stem .5" thick. Old stumps in 

 woods. Greig. September. Pare. 



I am not aware that a representative of this subgenus has before 

 been found in this country, and none is yet known to belong to 

 the flora of England. 



Agaricus (Psilocybe) Limicola n. sp. 



Pileus thin, convex, then expanded, smooth, hygrophanous, 

 dark watery brown and striatulate on the margin when moist, pale 

 ochraceous brown and corrugate-wrinkled when dry ; lamellae close, 

 rounded behind, attached, cinnamon-brown, becoming darker ; 

 stem slender, equal, brittle, silky, hollow above w4th a distinct 

 separable pith below, whitish; spores elliptical-cymbiform, ^-gioo-' 

 long. 



Plant subcaespitose, 2' high, pileus 6"-12" broad, stem scarcely 

 1" thick. Damp muck soil in woods. Greig. September. (Plate 

 2, figs. 9-13.) 



Related to A. cermms, but more slender and fragile, with a 

 different habitat, larger spores, etc. 



Agaricus (Psathyeella) odoratus Tt. sp. 



Pileus thin, fragile, ovate-convex, at length expanded, smooth, 

 hygrophanous, dark reddish brown or chestnut colored and stria- 



