Report of tee Botanist, 79 



Agaricus (Hypholoma) niKTosQUAMULOsus Peck. 



Pileus firm, convex or expanded, hairy-squamiilose, hygrophan- 

 ous, grayish-brown when moist, gray when dry ; lamellae narrow, 

 rounded at the stem, gra}^, then brown; stem short, firm, equal? 

 hollow, slightly hairy-squamulose and colored like the pileus ; 

 spores subelliptical, cymbiform, nucleate, .00025' long. 



Plant 1' high, pileus 6"-10" broad, stem scarcely 1 " thick. 



Prostrate trunks of maple trees in woods. Portville. September 



The minute hairy tufts of the pileus are similar in appearance to 

 those on A. melleus. 



Agaricus hiascens Ft. 



Damp ground under willows. West Albany. June. 



COPRINUS VARIEGATUS Peck. 



Pileus fleshy, thin, fragile, oblong-ovate, then campanulate, 

 obtuse, hygrophanous, pale watery-brown when moist, whitish or 

 cream color when dry, variegated by scales or patches of a super- 

 ficial ochraceous tomentum, the margin finely striate; lamellae 

 lanceolate, crowded, ascending, free, white, then rosy-brown, finally 

 black ; stem equal, brittle, hollow, white, at first peronate- annulate, 

 then floccose-pruinose, with white branching root-like threads at 

 the base ; spores subelliptical, .00033' long. 



Plant densely csespitose, 3'-5' high, pileus 1-1.5' broad, stem 

 2-4:" thick. 



Thin soil and decaying leaves covering rocks. Slope of Crows 

 Nest near West Point. June. 



When young the whole plant is coated by an abundant super- 

 ficial floccose-tomentum. This soon breaks up into loose scales or 

 patches which peel off in flakes, revealing the smooth pileus 

 beneath. This character will readily distinguish this plant from 

 C. atraraentarius to which it is allied. The slight abrupt annulus 

 soon vanishes. 



Hygrophorus chlorophanus Fr. 



Mossy ground. Greenbush. June. 



Ours is a small form, var. coGcinea, with the disk of the pileus 

 bright red. This color gradually fades into yellow on the margin 

 where it is varied by the brighter colored striations. 



MaRASMIUS SEMIHIRTIPES Pcclc. 



Pileus thin, tough, nearly plane or depressed, smooth, sometimes 

 striate on the margin, hygrophanous, reddish-brown when moist, 



