Part 1, 1914] AGARICAC3AE 17 



48. Melanoleuca paeonia (Fries) Murrill. 



Agaricus paeonius Fries, Epicr. Myc, 42. 1838. 



Agaricus carneus Pers. Syn. Fung. 340. 1801. Not A. carneus Schaeff. 1774. 



Tricholoma carneum Gill. Champ. Fr. 115. 1876. 



Pileus subfleshy, convex to plane, 2-5 cm. broad; surface flesh-colored, silky to glabrous, 



margin floccose; lamellae rounded, free, ventricose, white; spores ellipsoid, 2.5 X 1.7 m; stipe 



soft, fragile, subpulverulent at the apex, persistently red, hollow, 2-5 cm. long. 



Type locality: Sweden. 



Habitat: Grassy or mossy places. 



Distribution : New York ; also in Europe. 



Illustrations: Bull. Herb. Fr. pi. 533, f. 1; Fries, Icon. pi. 40, f, 2. 



49. Melanoleuca microspora (Ellis) Murrill. 



Agaricus {Tricholoma) microsporus Ellis, Bull. Torrey Club 5: 45. 1874. 



Pileus fleshy, thin, 1-2 cm. broad; surface dull-reddish-purple, slightly rugose, with a 

 glaucous bloom, subzonate on drying; lamellae deeply and narrowly sinuate, subconcolorous, 

 pale-purple to reddish-yellow, scarcely crowded, 3 mm. broad; spores subglobose, 3-5 m; stipe 

 minutely pubescent, yellowish-pilose at the base, hollow, 2.5 cm. long, 2 mm. thick. 



Type locality: Newfield, New Jersey. 



Habitat: In sphagnum or on rotten cedar stumps in a white cedar swamp. 

 Distribution: New Jersey. 



Exsiccati: Ellis & Ev. N. Am. Fungi 2003. 



50. Melanoleuca ionides (Pers.) Murrill. 



Agaricus ionides Pers. Syn. Fung. 338. 1801. 

 Tricholoma ionides Gill. Champ. Fr. 114. 1876. 



Pileus fleshy, campanulate to plane, at length depressed, reaching 5 cm. broad; surface 

 expallent, smooth, watery-red becoming violet, alutaceous when dry, margin subsinuate; 

 lamellae arcuate-adnate, whitish to yellowish, 6 mm. broad; spores ellipsoid, smooth, hyaline, 

 6-7X3-5 n; stipe solid, attenuate upward, glabrous, rose-colored, stuffed, 5-7 cm. long, 4-6 

 mm. thick. 



Type locality: France. 

 Habitat: Grassy ground. 



Distribution: New York and Greenland; also in Europe. 



Illustrations: Bull. Herb. Fr. pi. 533, f. 3; Boudier, Ic. Myc. 1: pi. 24; Cooke, Brit. Fungi 

 pi. 95a (ioi). 



51. Melanoleuca maculatescens (Peck) Murrill. 



Tricholoma maculatescens Peck, Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 44: 150. 1891. 



Pileus compact, convex to expanded, obtuse, even, 4-7.5 cm. broad; surface slightly viscid 

 when moist, reddish-brown, becoming rivulose and brown-spotted on drying, margin inflexed, 

 exceeding the lamellae; context whitish, spongy; lamellae slightly emarginate, rather narrow, 

 cinereous; spores oblong or subfusiform, pointed at the ends, uninucleate, 7.5X4/z; stipe 

 spongy-fleshy, equal, sometimes abruptly narrowed at the base, solid, stout, fibrillose, pallid 

 or whitish, 5-7.5 cm. long, 12-18 mm. thick. 



Type locality: Ohio. 



Habitat: Among fallen leaves in deciduous woods. 



Distribution: Ohio. 



Illustration: Hard, Mushrooms/. 59. 



52. Melanoleuca tricolor (Peck) Murrill. 



Tricholoma tricolor Peck, Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 41 : 60. 1888. 



Pileus broadly convex or nearly plane, sometimes slightly depressed in the center, firm, 

 5-10 cm. broad; surface dry, obscurely striate on the margin, pale-alutaceous inclining to 

 russet; context whitish; lamellae thin, narrow, close, adnexed, pale-yellow, becoming brown or 

 purplish-brown in drying; spores broadly ellipsoid or subglobose, 7.5 jn long; stipe stout, short, 

 firm, tapering upward from the thickened or subbulbous base, white, 5-7.5 cm. long, 12-24 mm. 



thick. 



Type locality: Selkirk, New York. 

 Habitat: Grounds in woods. 

 Distribution: New York. 



