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dark as the cap or sometimes even darker. The cap is grayish 
brown or mouse color, sometimes becoming paler or drab on the 
margin. 
The gills are white or whitish, free from the stem and broader 
as they approach the margin of the cap. The intervening short ones 
are truncated at the inner extremity. 
The stem is neither bulbous-nor distinctly annulate. It is white 
or whitish and more or less mealy or scurfy. It is rather slender and 
sometimes slightly tapering upward. Near the base it is often 
adorned with a few transverse fragments of the wrapper which are 
often so arranged as to resemble an incomplete ring or collar. 
Occasionally two or even three of these imperfect collars are formed. 
Fries represents the base of the stem of the European plant as 
sheathed by a membranaceous wrapper, but such a character is not 
well shown in the American plant. Neither does it show the one 
or two swollen nodes near the base of the stem, as represented in 
the figure in leones. I suspect these discrepancies are due to the 
failure of the artist to represent these characters accurately, for 
Berkeley’s figure of Agaricus Ceciliae B. & Br., which Fries, in Hy- 
menomycetes Europaei, places as a synonym of Agaricus strangulatus, 
well represents our plant. It is also well represented in the figure of 
Agaricus strangulatus as given by Saunders and Smith. They also 
represent the spores as globose, but at the same time they quote the 
presumably incorrect description of them, which says that they are 
oval, .0006 inch long, .00034 broad. Saccardo has also admitted this 
description of the spores in Sylloge. We must either suppose this 
description is incorrect or else we must suppose that all recent my- 
cological authors, including the illustrious Fries himself, have con¬ 
fused two distinct species. The former supposition seems to us to 
be the more reasonable. If, however, it should ever be shown that 
Agaricus Ceciliae B. & Br. is not the same as Agaricus strangulatus 
Fr., then our American plant must bear the name Amanitopsis 
Ceciliae (B. & Br.) instead of the name we have used. 
The cap is i\ to 4 in. broad, the stem is 3 to 5 in. long and 3 to 6 
lines thick. 
