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adnexed, having a decurrent tooth, close, thin, white; spores broadly ellipsoid, 5-6X4-5 p; 

 stipe firm, nearly equal, distinctly radicate, slightly fibrillose, white, fistulose, 4-10 cm. long, 

 6-10 mm. thick. 



Type locality: North Elba, New York. 

 Habitat: Under coniferous trees. 

 Distribution: New York and Massachusetts. 

 Illustrations: Bull. N. Y. State Mus. 67: pi. 82, f. 15-19. 



20. Melanoleuca striatifolia (Peck) Murrill. 



Agaricus (Tricholoma) strialifolius Peck, Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 30: 37. 1878. 



Pileus convex or nearly plane, 5-7.5 cm. broad; surface dry, subglabrous, somewhat 

 shining, often obscurely dotted or squamulose with innate fibrils, grayish or grayish-brown, 

 sometimes tinged with red; context white, with peculiar odor; lamellae rather close, rounded 

 behind, transversely striate or venose, white; spores subglobose or broadly ellipsoid, 4^5 m? 

 stipe slightly thickened at the base, hollow, chalky-white, 2.5-5 cm, long, 6-12 mm. thick. 



Type locality: Mechanics ville, New York. 



Habitat: On the ground in woods. 



Distribution: New York, Massachusetts, and North Carolina. 



21. Melanoleuca impolitoides (Peck) Murrill. 



Agaricus {Tricholoma) impolitoides Peck, Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 32: 25. 1880. 



Pileus convex to expanded, obtuse, 5-7 cm. broad; surface dry, fibrillose- tomentose, 

 whitish, the disk usually brownish and at length squamose, sometimes distantly striate on the 

 margin; context white, taste farinaceous; lamellae emarginate, close, whitish ; spores ellipsoid, 

 6.5X5 fx; stipe equal, slightly fibrillose, white, solid, 7-10 cm. long, 6-10 mm. thick. 



Type locality: Gansevoort, New York. 



Habitat: Ground in woods. 



Distribution: Kjtiown only from the type locality. 



22. Melanoleuca fumidella (Peck) Murrill. 



Agaricus (Tricholoma) fumidellus Peck, Bull. Buffalo Soc Nat. Sci. 1: 44. 1873. 



Pileus convex, then expanded, subumbonate, 2.5-5 cm. broad; surface smooth, moist, at 

 times rimose-areolate, dingy- white or clay-color clouded with brown, becoming paler when 

 dried, disk darker than margin; lamellae close, subventricose, whitish; spores 4.5X3.5ju; 

 stipe equal, smooth, solid, splitting readily, whitish, 5-7.5 cm. long, 4-6 mm. thick. 



Type locality: New Scotland, New York. 



Habitat: On the ground in woods. 



Distribution: New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey, and North Carolina. 



23. Melanoleuca terraeolens (Peck) Murrill. 



Agaricus {Tricholoma) terraeolens Peck, Ann. Rep. N, Y. State Mus. 38: 84. 1885. 



Pileus thin, convex or nearly plane, 1-1.5 cm. broad; surface slightly silky-fibrillose, whitish 

 with a brownish or grayish-brown, slightly prominent disk ; context with a strong and unpleasant 

 odor and taste; lamellae subdistant, emarginate, white; spores subglobose or broadly ellipsoid, 

 6-7.5X5-6.5 /j.; stipe equal, slightly silky, shining, stuffed or hollow, white, 2.5-4 cm. long, 

 about 4 mm. thick. 



Type locality: South Ballston, New York. 



Habitat: Under ground-hemlock. 



Distribution: Known only from the type locality. 



24. Melanoleuca infantilis (Peck) Murrill. 



Tricholoma infantile Peck; Bull, N. Y. State Mus. I 2 : 5. 1887. 



Pileus thin, convex or nearly plane, 1-2.5 cm. broad; surface smooth, minutely silky, 

 moist in wet weather, reddish-gray, margin at first incurved and whitish j often irregular with 

 age; lamellae subdistant, plane or slightly ventricose, often eroded on the edge, whitish; spores 



