Farlow.l 358 [Miy^*. 
From these facts v\'o may infer that the fungus called A(/. 
amygdalinus, while in Curtis's opinion closely related to Ag. 
arop.nsis, correspouded closely to the description of Ag.fabaceus 
Berk., first collected by Lai in Ohio and described by Berkeley 
in Hooker's Loudon journal of botany, v. 6, p. 314, 1847, the 
description being repeated in T. G. Lea's "Catalogue of plants 
. , . collected in the vicinity of Cincinnati," p. 53, and several 
other places. The white, externally floccose veil is clearly 
described, and the fungus is said when young to have a peculiar 
but not unpleasant smell. It may be that since nothing was 
said concerning the almond taste in the original description of 
Ag faljaceus, Curtis was led to believe that his amygdalinus was 
a different species. In spite of the fact that nothing was said by 
Lea concerning the taste, it seems to us that we are warranted in 
believing that Ag. amygdalinus is in reality another name ap2)lied 
to the older Ag. fabaceus Berk. The specimens sent by Colonel 
Rives agree well with the description of Ag. fabaceus and in 
taste and smell with what is recorded of Ag. amygdalinus. 
The description of Ag. subrufescens Peck., although fuller than 
that of Ag.fabaceus, does not seem to me to differ in any essential 
respect, and it seems to me that the fungi collected both by Mr. 
Falconer and Colonel Rives should be referred to Ag. fabaceus as 
the original of our North American species. Whether our species 
is to be regarded as identical with some older Em-opean form is 
a point which need not be discussed here. It is, at least, interest- 
ing that a fungus recorded by Curtis as common in the Southern 
States and by Morgan as common in Ohio, but which was prac- 
tically unknown in the Eastern States except for the single 
reference by Sprague in vol. 6, p. 316, of the Proceedings of this 
Society, should appear suddenly in immense quantities on 
Long Island and in Washington. It appears to me to be one of 
the best of all edible fungi, but I am informed that it is regarded 
by dealers with suspicion in sj^ite of undoubted testimony to its 
harmlessness. 
General Me^tinc;, May 16, 1894. 
President W. H. Niles in the chair. Sixty-one persons 
present. 
The following pajsers were read : — 
