42 NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 



NEW SPECIES OF EXTRALIMITAL FUNGI 

 Amanita niorrisii 



PLATE W, FIG. 1-4 



Pileus fleshy, subcampaiiulate becoming broadly convex, viscid 

 when moist, glabrous, even on the margin, with a separable pellicle, 

 dark grayish brown or blackish brown, becoming a little paler with 

 age and with the escape of moisture, liesh white ; lamellae thin, 

 close, narrow, rounded behind, slightly adnexed, white ; stem equal 

 or slightly tapering upward, slightly bulbous at the base, solid or 

 stuffed, slightly floccose, sometimes grayish and striate at the top, 

 usually white, annulus double, radiately striate above, whitish buff 

 beneath, the slight volva soon breaking into fragments and disap- 

 pearing or occasionally partly adhering to the lower part of the 

 stem; spores subglobose or broadly ellipsoid, 8-10 x 6-8 !'-. 



Pileus 5-10 cm broad; stem 8-14 cm long, 12-20 mm thick. 



In black vegetable mold among mosses. Natick swamp, ^lass. 

 September. G. E. Morris. 



Pileus carnosus, subcampanulatus, deinde late convexus, viscidus, 

 glaber, margine leve, pellicula separabile, griseo-brunneus seu atro- 

 brunneus, in senectute vel quum siccus pallidior, carne alba; lamel- 

 lae tenues, confertae, angustae, leviter adnexae, albae ; stipes ae- 

 qualis, vel sursum attenuatus, solidus farctusve, minute flocculo- 

 sus, aliquando griseus et ad apicem striatus, vulgo albus, annulus 

 crassus, mollis, supra radiate striatus et alba, infra luteolus, volva 

 in fragmenta mox frangens et vanescens, seu stipitis parti inferori 

 in f ragmentis rare adhaerens ; sporae subglobosae vel cllipsoideae, 

 8-10 X 6-8 IK 



Agaricus eludens 



PLATE X, FIG. 6-13 



Pileus thin, ovate, -broadly conic or subcampanulate, sometimes 

 becoming broadly expanded, brown when young, becoming whitish 

 and covered with brown fibrillose squamules, the center smooth, 

 brown, the young margin surpassing the lamellae, flesh white 

 changing to reddish where wounded ; lamellae thin, close, narrow, 

 free, whitish becoming bright pink, then chocolate brown and finally 

 black or blackish brown; stem firm, nearly equal or sometimes 

 thickened at the base, often slightly bulbous, fibrous, silky, white, 

 stufi'ed with a hollow tube, internallv white, chang^ine: to blood red 



