SporesB. and Br.; smooth, 6×3µ Massee.

West Virginia, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, in grass and moss, along damp wood margins. August to October. McIlvaine.

N. cerodes is not plentiful where I have found it. Enough has been collected at a time to prove it esculent. It is tender, but has not much flavor.

(Plate LXXVIIIa.)

Naucoria striapes.

N. stri´apes Cke.—stria, a line; pes, a foot. Pileus 1–1½ in. broad, ochraceous, bell-shaped, obtuse, then expanded, smooth, even. Stem 2–3 in. long, 2 lines thick, hollow, equal, erect or flexuous, white, longitudinally striate. Gills slightly adnate behind, rather distant, tawny rust-color.

Cespitose or gregarious. Among grass on lawn. Stevenson.

Spores narrowly elliptical, 10–12×4µ Massee.

New Jersey, Trenton. Growing among leaves near dump. May to November. E.B. Sterling.