Harper—Species of Pholiota and Stropharia. 1023 
Stropharia unbonatescens, Pk. PI. LXV B. 
The plants were collected on Yeebish Island, Mich., in Sep¬ 
tember. They agree well with Peck’s description, N. Y. 
State Mats. Bep’t 30 p. 41. The plants are very close to Stro¬ 
pharia mammillata, Kalch, and probably belong to that species 
but the pileus is rather umbonate than papillate and the spores 
are elliptical rather than ovate or pyramidal as in the descrip¬ 
tion of Stropharia mamillata. Peck’s description reads: 
“Pileus at first conical, subacnte, then expanded and um¬ 
bonate, smooth, viscid, yellow, the umbo inclining to red¬ 
dish. Lamellae, plane, broad, at length ventrieose, blackish 
brown with a slight olivaceous tint. Stem equal, slender, 
hollow, generally a little paler than the pileus, Spores 
purplish brown, almost black, 10x15—18%^. 
Plant 3—4 inches high, pileus. G—12 lines broad, dung in 
pastures, September.” 
Peck remarks that the plant has probably been confounded 
with Stropharia semiglobata and Stropharia stercoraria but 
that he has separated it on account of the peculiar pileus. 
Stropharia siccipes, Karst. PI. LXVI DEP. 
The plants photographed grew on cow dung in a pasture at 
Blue Mounds, Wis., in June. .The stems were dry and floccose 
and the whitish clay color of the caps was quite distinct from 
the yellow tints of Stropharia semiglobata. The species is 
described as intermediate between Stropharia stercoraria and 
Stropharia semiglobata, differing from the former in the 
shorter dry stem and the color and from the latter in the 
stuffed, dry, flocculose stipe as well as color. We have col¬ 
lected the species a number of times and also have specimens 
from Yew York state. 
Pileus slightly fleshy, from hemispherical to expanded, ob¬ 
tuse, naked, even, or pellucid striate on the margin, viscid, 
whitish clay color, yellowish when dry. Lamellae adnate or 
subdecurrent, clay color to fuscous. Stem stuffed, soon hollow, 
straight or flexuous, smooth, finely fibrillose, flocculose, sub- 
flocculose or pruinose above the distant, dry, incomplete an- 
