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disco carnoso ; stipite firmo, subligneo, primum furfuraceo ; velo 

 floccoso, flavo-purpureo ; lamellis pallido-purpureis, demum flavo-fus- 

 cis, adnato-decurrentibus. 



Pileus two and three inches across, solitary or tufted, when 3*oung 

 convex, purple, soon expanding and flat, with a broad flesh} 7 umbo, 

 very viscid, varying from light yellow to buff, with the umbo brownish 

 3 T ellow or purple; stem one and one and a half inches high, two lines 

 thick, hard and somewhat woody, nearly equal brownish-yellow, at 

 first furfuraceous ; veil fugitive, consisting of purple and yellow flocci ; 

 gills at first dirty white, then brownish purple, at length 3 7 ellow brown, 

 broad, rather distant, adnate, slightly decurrent, but easily breaking 

 away from the stem. Frequently eaten by large larvse, and then with 

 the exception of the woody stem turning into a viscid mass. This 

 beautiful species is evidently allied to A. Harmoge, but differs essen- 

 tially in the nature of the gills. 



Agaricus (Galera) mucidolens, Berk. — On a rotten trunk. Cincin- 

 nati, April 21, 1842. 



Olid us, pileo pluteiformi, lobato, glabro, nitido, viscido, fuligineo; 

 stipite fibrilloso ; lamellis liberis. — Berk, in Hook. Lond. Jour a., vol. 

 iv., p. 301. 



Pileus two to three inches broad, of a dull smoky brown, viscid; 

 stem two inches or more high, clothed with brownish fibres ; gills free; 

 spores dull, ferruginous, broadly subcymbiform, with a small nucleus; 

 smell like that of decayed cheese. Allied to A. reticulatus, but differ- 

 ing in several points, and especially in its dull ferruginous, not croceo- 

 ferruginous spores. 



Agaricus (Crepidotus) crocophyllus, n. sp. — On a dead trunk. 

 Waynesville, Sept. 5, 1844. 



Pileo sessili, sub-flabelliformi, ochraceo-fusco, adpresse squamoso; 

 lamellis aurantiis. 



Pileus scarce half an inch long, flabelliform, convex, ochraceous-* 

 brown, clothed with minute adpressed scales; stem none; gills rather 

 broad, rounded behind, bright buff; spores subglobose, pale ochre 

 yellow. I do not know any species with which to compare this. 

 Agaricus croceo-lamellatus is, I believe, the same with Paxillus 

 Panuoides. The only resemblance, however, is in the color of the 

 gills. It is perhaps most like Agaricus mollis, but besides the color of 

 the gills the spores are smaller and of a different form. It is not, I 

 believe, resupinate in any stage of growth. 



