Oar plants all have erect scales; sometimes the gills are simple, sometimes a few 
only branched, and sometimes most of the gills are branched. We would con¬ 
sider them all, acutesquamosa but would modify Fries’ gill characters. It seems 
to me the descriptions of this plant do not emphasize enough the peculiar cob¬ 
webby veil in which it differs from all other large species. Usually it is woven 
into a thin membrane as shown in our photograph, but we have a photograph 
(425) where the veil consists of distinct fragile threads, like a spider’s \veb. We 
only find the plant in the woods, and generally growing in soil thickly mixed with 
.decaying wood as where a log has rotted away. Our photograph distributed (one 
of the first we made, No. 37) is not as good as we would like and we will probably 
substitute later a better one. _ 
13—LEPIOTA RUBROTINCTA. 
Pileus explanate, thin, obtuse, entirely covered with a 
reddish thin cuticle, which often cracks or peels away but 
does not break up into scales. Gills close, free, white. Flesh 
white. Stipe slender, equal or slightly thickened below, 
white, smooth, hollow. Ring usually entire, white, or the mar¬ 
gin often similarly colored like the pileus. Spores, 5x7 me. 
This is a beautiful species found in the woods. Prof. Peck compares it to 
cristata but if I have correctly identified his species it seems to me to have little 
in common excepting the color of the pileus cuticle. The thin cuticle often 
cracks or peels away in a radiating manner, but does not form similar spreading 
scales, to cristata. Often we find specimens of this species with the cuticle un¬ 
broken, never in cristata save on the very disk. In our photograph the three 
erect plants have the usual character of the cuticle, very rarely we find it as 
seen in the specimen where the full top of pileus is shown. I consider Lepiota 
carneo-annulata, Clements the same plant. Often we find specimens with the 
ring beautifully incarnate margined. The species is no doubt edible but not 
abundant enough to be of any importance. 
14—PHOTOGRAPHS. 
In order to encourage a more general study of our 
native agarics, I will supply photographs of the plants de¬ 
scribed in these pamphlets at cost of printing, viz, 10 cents 
each, and will send a set of twelve photographs representing 
the plants here described, on receipt of $1.20. With the 
aid of these photographs and descriptions, any one should 
recognize the specimens when found growing. Having dis¬ 
claimed any personal credit for the excellence of my photo¬ 
graphs and given it where due to the lens , it will not be 
amiss to say that notwithstanding the lack of color I con¬ 
sider them the best illustrations of fungi I have ever seen 
and would not exchange them for any colored plates ever 
issued. Artists are often inaccurate but a good lens makes 
no mistakes. A delay of a week or ten days will elapse 
after receipt of order before the set can be mailed, as it 
requires this much time to have the set printed. 
C. G. LLOYD, Court and Plum Sts., CINCINNATI, 0. 
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