(See 48th Rep., page 138). It seems very close to cultivated forms of campes- 
tris, differing in the unchangeable flesh and the floccose-squamulose ring (See 
48th Rep., plate 7). 
75 - Psalliota tabularis, described from Colorado, dried specimens. 
Strongly characterized by “deeply rimose-areolate pileus, the areolae pyramidal, 
truncate” (See Bull. Torr. Club, Vol. 22, page 203). 
76—Psalliota xylogena, a yellow species, described from a drawing sent 
to Europe 40 years ago as growing on wood . A few rare species do grow on 
wood but save this none are known in our country and no one has ever recog¬ 
nized this one since it was described 40 years ago. 
77—Synonyms used in connection with the American genus. 
Psalliota edulis=Psalliota arvensis. 
“ exquisita=^ “ “ 
Hornemanni=Stropharia Hornemanni. 
“ Johnsoniana= “ Johnsonians. 
“ pratensis=Psalliota campestris (form). 
“ semiglobata—Stropharia semiglobata. 
“ stercoraria= “ stercoraria. 
78—LEPIOTA RACHODES. 
(See Myc. Notes, No. 40.( 
Pileus, when young, covered with an even, smooth, 
brown, continuous cuticle which, as the plant grows, sepa¬ 
rates (excepting on the disk) into loose scales that fall away 
leaving the surface much torn with fibrillose scales. The 
outer cuticle remains entire at the disk. Flesh white, turn¬ 
ing reddish when bruised. Gills free, remote, white. Ring 
movable. Stem stout, strongly bulbose at the base, smooth 
We are indebted to Geo. B. Fessenden, President of the Boston Myco- 
logical Club, for fresh specimens from which our notes and photographs were 
made. The plant seems to occur only in the Eastern States There is no 
question of the correctness of the determination. The plant agrees well with 
Vittadini’s plate and description, and Bresadola confirms it. Cooke’s plate 
was evidently made from the same species but is a poor illustration of it. In 
this country there has been much confusion about the species. The ‘ rach- 
odes” of early American workers is the plant we now call Americana (See No. 
8). Frost seems to be the first to correctly identify it, but both plants grew 
with him. Save in its property of turning red when bruised it has little in 
common with Americana but is very close to procera. It differs from procera 
in its smooth stem, in the entire absence of an umbo, and in the more ragged 
surface of the pileus when the outer cuticle has peeled off (hence the name 
rachodes from a Greek word meaning a ragged garment). Our photographs of 
the two species would indicate a marked difference in rachodes having a large 
bulb at base of stipe, but I am advised by Mr. Fessenden that this feature is 
not constant. The following notes from Mr. Fessenden are from observations 
on the growing plant. “I have seen large specimens with stipes 2h inches in 
diameter and shaped like an onion stalk, but this shape is unusual. The pileus 
does not turn red at once by bruising but the stipe does. I think it turns as 
quickly as Americana, although the flow of the juice is not quite so profuse. 
When young the pileus is more globose than procera and when mature is 
slightly depressed or perfectly even at the disk. It is gregarious in habits. 
\\ e usually find several growing together at the base. I have observed that it 
grows in exactly the same locality year after year and increases in quantity 
each year. It comes early and lasts until the ground freezes. It is an edible 
species and on account of its persistent recurrence from the same mycelium I 
think it could be successfully cultivated.” 
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