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gan during August and September. I got a good collection on the 

 Upper St. Regis and sent some of it to Albany. I also found a 

 rather small specimen at Unaka Springs, Tennessee, which was 

 isabelline with reddish-brown disk, and had a smooth, glabrous, 

 white stipe which was cream-colored toward the base. 



23. Agaricus approximans Peck, Bull. N. Y. State Mus. 131 : 



33- !909 



Pileus thin, conic or campanulate, often obtusely umbonate, gre- 

 garious or sometimes two united at the base, 2.5-4 cm. broad; sur- 

 face squamulose except on the umbo, often radiately rimose, whit- 

 ish, with brownish squamules, blackish-brown or fuscous on the 

 umbo; context white, unchanging, with a sweet and agreeable 

 taste; lamellae thin, crowded, free, white, becoming brown or 

 blackish-brown; spores 5-6 x 3.5-4 /x; stipe equal or tapering up- 

 ward, stuffed or hollow, whitish, sometimes brownish below the 

 annulus, 2.5-4 cm. long, 4-6 mm. thick; annulns conspicuous, per- 

 sistent, simple, white, attached above the middle of the stipe. 



Type locality : Near Trenton, New Jersey. 

 Habitat : On manure. 



Distribution : Known only from the type locality. 



Illustration: Bull. N. Y. State Mus. 131 : pi. V, f. 8-14. 



Collected by E. B. Sterling on September 5, 1908. The types, 

 which are well preserved at Albany, remind me in their shape of 

 some species of Lepiota, 



24. Agaricus haemorrhoidarius Schulz. in Kalchb. Ic. Hymen. 



Hung. 29. 1874 



Pileus fleshy, ovoid to expanded, solitary or somewhat clustered, 

 5-1 1 cm. broad; surface dry, covered especially toward the center 

 with rather dense, appressed, fibrillose, brownish-gray squamules ; 

 context white, changing to blood-red when broken, the odor and 

 taste agreeable; lamellae free, approximate, crowded, rosy-flesh- 

 colored to purplish-brown ; spores ellipsoid, smooth, purplish- 

 brown, about 6 x 4/x; stipe subequal, fibrillose, pallid to somewhat 

 darker with age; stuffed to hollow, solid at the base, which is some- 

 times bulbous, 5-10 cm. long, 8-15 mm. thick; annulus superior, 

 ample, simple, persistent, white. 



Type locality : Hungary. 



Habitat : About bases of trees in coniferous or mixed woods. 



