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cose, gray, or brownish, the mouth conic, sulcate-plicate, ina | 
circular, marginate disk. Spores globose, verruculose, brown, — 
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Growing in clusters, at first half immersed in the soil, on the 
open prairie about Lincoln, Neb. Sent by Prof. Charles E. 
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