oking than the
cultivated mushroom. Broiled on toast or cooked for ten minutes in a
chafing dish, they make a very acceptable addition to the lunch menu.

The specimens figured in Plate IX were selected from a crop of thirty or
more growing in the author's garden, in very rich soil at the base of a
plum-tree stump. For several seasons past small crops have been gathered
from the same spot, as well as around the base of a flourishing peach
tree. Quantities of all three species have been gathered in the short
grass of the Capitol grounds for a number of seasons, and in the various
parks of the District of Columbia. Specimens have been received from
western New York and Massachusetts. Those growing upon soil very heavily
fertilized are apt to be somewhat stouter and shorter stemmed than those
coming up through the short grass in the parks.

ANALYTICAL TABLE.

The following compendious analytical table showing prominent
characteristics of the leading genera and subgenera of the order
Agaricini, according to Fries, Worthington Smith, and other botanists,
which appears in Cooke's Hand Book, revised edition, will be found
helpful to the collector in determining the genus to which a specimen
may belong.

ORDER AGARICINI

I. Spores white or very slightly tinted--Leucospori
1. Plant fleshy, more or less firm, putrescent (neither
deliquescent nor coriaceous)
2. Hymenophore free
3. Pileus bearing warts or patches free from the
cuticle (volvate) _Amanita_
3. Pileus scaly, scales concrete with the cuticle
(not volvate) _Lepiota_
2. Hymenophore confluent
4. Without cartilaginous bark
5. Stem central
6. With a ring _Armillaria_
6. Ringless
7. Gills sinuate _Tricholoma_
7. Gills decurrent
8. Edge acute _Clitocybe_
8. Edge swollen obtuse CANTHARELLUS
7. Gills adnate
9. Parasitic on other Agarics NYCTALIS
9. Not parasitic
10. Milky LACTARIUS
10. Not milky
11.