140 
22. “ R. focetens, (Pers.) Fr., Hym. Eur., p. 447; Stev., B. F., p. 124; 
Sacc. Sy 11., Vol. V, p. 4G7. Pileas 4-5 inches (10-12.5 centimeters) and 
more broad, dingy yellow, often becoming pale, thinly fleshy, at first bull- 
ate, then expanded and depressed, covered with a pellicle which is adnate, 
not separable and viscid in wet weather, margin broadly membranace¬ 
ous, at first bent inwards ivith ribs which are at length tubercular ; flesh 
thin, rigid —fragile, pallid. Stem 2 inches (5 centimeters) and more 
long, £-1 inch (1-2.5 centimeters) thick, stout, stuffed, then hollow, 
whitish. Gills adnexed, crowded, connected by veins, with very many 
dimidiate and forked ones intermixed, whitish, at first exuding watery 
drops. 
“Fetid. Taste acrid. Very rigid , most distinct from all others in its 
very heavy empyreumatic odor. In very dry weather the odor is often 
obsolete. The margin is more broadly membranaceous and hence 
marked with longer furrows than in any other species. It differs from 
all the preceding ones in the gills at the first exuding watery drops. The 
gills become obsoletely light yellow, and dingy when bruised.”—Steven¬ 
son. “In woods, etc. Very common. July to September. Stem rug¬ 
gedly hollow within as if eaten by snails.”—M. J. B. “A very coarse 
and easily recognized species. Beckoned poisonous, though eaten by 
slugs. Spores minutely echinulate, almost globular 8 /jl.”—W. G. S. 
‘‘Name- feetens, stinking. (Fr. Mongr., ii, p. 195; Sv. atl. Sv., t. 40; 
Berk. Out., p. 213; C. Hbk., n. 628; S. mycol. Scot., n. 600; Ag. Pers.— 
Krombh., t. 70, f. 1-6 ; Viv., 41; Bull., t, 292 ; Ventur., t. 33, f. 1-3.)”— 
Stevenson. 
“Variety granulata has the cuticle of the pileus rough with small 
granular scales.”—Peck, Thirty-ninth Report. “ The odor of this plant 
as it occurs with us is not usually fetid or unpleasant. It resembles 
the odor of cherry bark and might aptly be termed amygdaline, and 
the same odor has been attributed by one writer at least to the Euro¬ 
pean E.foetens. It is doubtless this form to which Dr. Curtis gave the 
name E. amygdalina. The lamelhe are rarely forked and frequently 
are quite as equal as in species of the section Fragiles.”—Peck, Thirty- 
second Report.. 
North Carolina and Pennsylvania, plentiful, August, Schweinitz; 
North Carolina, Curtis; Massachusetts, Sprague, Frost; New York, 
common in woods and open places, July and August, Peck, Twenty- 
third Report; Minnesota, July to September, Johnson; Wisconsin, 
Bundy; Ohio, generally rancid and stinking, sometimes fragrant, com¬ 
mon, Morgan; Rhode Island, Bennett. 
23. “R. simillima, Peck, 24th Rep. N. Y. State Mus. Nat. Hist., 1872, 
p. 75; Sacc. Syll., Vol. Y, p. 467 ; pileus, 1-3 inches (2.5-7.5 centime¬ 
ters) ; broad, hemispherical or convex, then expanded, slightly de¬ 
pressed; at first or when moist viscid; the margin at length tubercu- 
late-striate; pale, ochraceous yellow, the disk usually a little brighter 
colored; gills subequal, reaching the stem, some of them forked behind, 
venose connected, yellowish from the first; stem 2-4 inches (5-10 cen- 
