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Pileus viscid when moist, convex to expanded, in age some¬ 
what depressed, clay color, darker over center, often with ap- 
pressed clay brown scales with a darker color. 
Gills raw umber to Mars brown (R), emarginate, adnate y 
sometimes with a decurrent tooth, easily becoming free. 
Cystidia on sides of gills none, edge of gills with large 
hyaline thin-walled cells, subventricose, sometimes nearly cylin¬ 
drical, abruptly narrowed at each end with a slight sinus around' 
the middle. 
Spores subovate to subelliptical, subinequilateral, smooth, 7- 
9x4-5 fi, fuscous ferruginous, dull ochraceous under microscope. 
Stem same color as pileus but paler, cartilaginous, floccose 
from loose threads or in some cases abundant threads over the 
surface, becoming hollow, base bulbous, the extreme base covered 
with whitish mycelium. 
Veil rather thick, floccose, disappearing leaving remnants on 
stem and margin of pileus when fresh. 
Stropharia hardii Atkinson n. sp. 
20118. Photographed G. F. A. 
Chillicothe, Ohio, received October 17, 1906, M. E. Hard 
No. 8. 
Plant 10 cm. high; pileus 9 cm. broad; stem 1^ cm. thick. 
Pileus pale bright ochraceous; gills brownish near Prout’s 
brown (R) ; stem pale yellow tinge. 
Pileus convex to expanded, thick at the center, thin toward 
the margin, smooth; flesh tinged yellow. 
Gills subelliptical to subventricose behind, broadly emargin¬ 
ate, adnexed. 
Basidia 4-spored. 
Spores suboblong, smooth, 5-9X3-5 /*, purple brown under 
the microscope. 
Cystidia not very numerous on sides of gills, varying from 
clavate to subventricose to sublanceolate, the free end more or 
less irregular when narrow, rarely branching below the apex 
and usually with a prominent broad apiculus or with two or 
several short processes. Similar cells on edge of gills, but some¬ 
what smaller and more regular. 
Stem even at the base, tapering to a short root, transversely 
floccose scaly both above and below the ring. The ring mem¬ 
braneous, not prominent but still evident, about 2 cm. from the 
apex. 
Explanation of Plate 91. — Photograph of fresh specimens of 
Naucoria paludosella Atkinson. Young specimens with the pileus unex¬ 
pended to the left below; above older plants with upturned cap; the 
plant over the black background shows the conspicuous clay brown scales- 
of the pileus. 
