2 NORTH AMERICAN FLORA [Volume 10 



2. Laccaria tortilis (Bolt.) Pat. Hymen. Eur. 97. 1887. 



Agaricus tortilis Bolt. Hist. Fung. Halifax 41. 1788. 

 Clitocybe tortilis Sacc. Sy 11. Fung. 5: 198. 1887. 



Pileus membranous, convex, plane or centrally depressed, irregular, closely gregarious or 

 cespitose, 5-10 mm. broad; surface subferruginous, obscurely striate, margin derlexed and 

 sometimes torn; lamellae thick, subdistant, adnate, flesh-colored; spores globose, echinulate, 

 12-16 ix\ stipe short, equal or slightly thickened at the base, stuffed or hollow, twisted, 

 fragile, concolorous, 8-12 mm. long, 0.5-1 mm. thick. 



Type locality: England. 



Habitat: Damp places in woods or by roadsides. 

 Distribution: Northeastern United States; also in Europe. 



Illustrations: Bolt. Hist. Fung. Halifax pi. 41, f. A; Boudier, Ic. Myc. pL 59; Pat. Tab. 

 Fung. pi. 105. 



3. Laccaria striatula Peck, Bull. N. Y. State Mus. 157: 93. 



1912. 



Clitocybe laccata striatula Peck, Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 48: 274. 1897. 



Pileus very thin, sub membranous, convex or nearly plane, gregarious, 12-20 mm. broad; 

 surface glabrous, hygrophanous, buff-red and striatulate when moist, grayish or pale-buff when 

 dry; lamellae broad, distant, adnate, pale-flesh-colored; spores globose or subglobose, verru- 

 culose, 11-13 m; stipe slender, equal, fibrous, hollow, concolorous, 1.5-3 cm. long, 1-2 mm. 

 thick. 



Type locality: Albany County, New York. 



Habitat: In wet or damp places. 



Distribution: Northeastern United States. 



Illustrations: Mycologia 3: pi. 40, f. 4; Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 48: pL 25, f. 14-18. 



■hi 



f 



4. Laccaria laccata (Scop.) Berk. & Br. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. V. 12. 



370. 1883. 



Agaricus laccatus Scop, Fl. Carn. ed. 2. 2: 444. 1772. 

 Clitocybe laccata Quel. Champ. Jura Vosg. 55. 1872. 



Pileus fleshy, rather thin, convex or nearly plane, sometimes umbilicate or centrally de- 

 pressed, solitary, gregarious or cespitose, 1.2-5 cm. broad; surface hygrophanous, glabrous, 

 furfuraceous or minutely squamulose, pale-red, buff-red or flesh-red when moist, pale-ochra- 

 ceous, grayish or buff when dry, margin smooth; lamellae rather broad, thick, subdistant, 

 adnate or decurrent, flesh^colored or pale flesh-colored; spores globose, verruculose, 8-10 /z; 

 stipe long or short, nearly or quite equal, fibrous, firm, straight or flexuous, stuffed, concolorous, 

 2.5-7.5 cm. long, 2-6 mm. thick. 



Type locality: Carniola. 



Habitat : Woods, groves, swamps, mossy places and pastures in wet, dry or sandy soil and even 

 in sphagnum. 



Distribution: Cosmopolitan. 



Illustrations: Ann, Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 48: pi. 25, f. 1-13; Bull. N. Y. State Mus. 116: 

 pi. 106, f. 1-6; Cooke, Brit. Fungi pi. 139 (179); Schaeff. Fung. Bavar. pi. 13; Sow. Engl. Fungi 

 pi. 208. 



5. Laccaria ochropurpurea (Berk.) Peck, Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 



50: 129. 1897. 



Agaricus (Clitocybe) ochropurpureus Berk. Hook. Lond. Jour. 4: 299. 1845. 



Pileus fleshy, firm, subhemispheric or convex becoming plane or slightly centrally de- 

 pressed, often very irregular and very variable in size and shape, solitary or rarely gregarious, 

 5-10 cm. broad; surface hygrophanous, purplish-brown when moist, grayish or pale-alutaceous 

 when dry, unpolished, margin decurved ; context edible ; lamellae thick, distant, broad, adnate 

 or decurrent, purplish; spores globose, verruculose, 8-10 nl stipe variable, short or long, equal 

 or sometimes thicker in the middle, sometimes at each end, fibrous, solid, concolorous or paler, 

 firm, 3-8 cm. long, 4-12 mm. thick. 



f 



Type locality: Columbus, Ohio. 



Habitat : Open grassy or bushy places, or thin woods. 



Distribution: Temperate North America. 



Illustrations: Bull. Chicago Acad. Sci. 7: pi. 3,f. 2; Bull. N. Y. State Mus. 1 16: pi. 106, f. 7-11. 



