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6. Cortinellus hirtellus (Peck) Murrill. 



Tricholoma hirtellum Peck, Bull. N. Y. State Mus. 116: 38. 1907. 



Pileus fleshy, thin, convex, subumbonate, solitary or cespitose, 2.5-4 cm. broad; surface 

 pale-brown, dry, hairy, the hairs sometimes minutely fasciculate; context white, taste mild; 

 lamellae thin, narrow, close, slightly sinuate-adnexed, minutely floccose on the edges, yellowish- 

 white or pallid; spores subglobose, 6-7.5X5-6 /z; stipe slender, equal, stuffed or hollow, with a 

 very small cavity, fibrillose or subsquamulose, concolorous or a little paler, 2.5-4 cm. broad, 

 4-6 mm. thick. 



Type locality: Wading River, Suffolk County, New York. 

 Habitat: On or about pine stumps. 

 Distribution: New York, New Jersey, and Alabama. 

 Illustrations: Bull. N. Y. State Mus. 116: pi. 105, f. IS. 



7. Cortinellus grandis (Peck) Murrill. 



Tricholoma grande Peck, Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 44: 128. 1892, 



Pileus thick, firm, hemispheric becoming convex, often irregular, frequently cespitose, 

 10-12.5 cm. broad; surface dry, brownish-squamulose, somewhat silky-fibrillose toward the 

 margin, white, margin at first involute, pure- white; context grayish- white, taste farinaceous; 

 lamellae close, rounded behind, adnexed, somewhat lacerate, white; spores ellipsoid, 8.5-1 IX 

 6 m stipe stout, solid, fibrillose, at first tapering upward, then equal or but slightly thickened 

 at the base, pure-white, 5-10 cm. long, 2.5-4 cm. thick. 



Type locality: Cattaraugus County, New York. 

 Habitat: Among fallen leaves in woods. 

 Distribution: Known only from the type locality. 

 Illustrations: Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 44: pi. 3, f. 5-8. 



8. Cortinellus multiformis (Schaeff.) Murrill. 



Agaricus multiformis Schaeff. Fung. Bavar. 4: 9. 1774. 

 Agaricus terreus Schaeff. Fung. Bavar. 4: 28. 1774. 

 Agaricus argyraceus Bull. Herb. Fr. pi. 423, f. 1. 1788. 

 Tricholoma terreum Quel. Champ. Jura Vosg. 42. 1872. 

 Cortinellus terreus P. J£arst. Hattsv. 1: 25. 1879. 



Pileus fleshy, thin, soft, convex, campanulate, or nearly plane, obtuse or umbonate, at 

 times gregarious to cespitose, 2.5-7.5 cm. broad; surface innately fibrillose or floccose-squamose, 

 cinereous-fuscous, grayish-brown, or mouse-colored ; context white or whitish, sometimes with 

 a farinaceous odor ; lamellae adnexed, subdistant, more or less eroded on the edges, white be- 

 coming cinereous ; spores broadly ellipsoid, 6-7 X 4^5 /a ; stipe equal, varying from solid to 

 stuffed or hollow, fibrillose, white or whitish, 2.5-5 cm. long, 4—8 mm. thick. 



Type locality: Bavaria. 



Habitat : On the ground in woods or groves. 



Distribution: Temperate regions of the world. 



Illustrations: Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 49: pi. 47, f. 1-10; Barla, Champ. Nice pi. 36, 

 f. 1-3; Cooke, Brit. Fungi pi. 50 (83); Gill. Champ. Fr. pi. 73 {704); Hard, Mushrooms /. 55; Sow. 

 Engl. Fungi pi. 76. 



Hxsiccati: Herpell, Prap. Hutpilze 6; Clements, Crypt. Form. Colo. 174; Ellis & Ev. Fungi 

 Columb. 1983; Ellis & Ev. N. Am. Fungi 2726; Krieger, Fungi Sax. 486. 



9. Cortinellus subrufescens (Ellis & Ev.) Murrill. 



Tricholoma subrufescens Ellis & Ev. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1893: 440. 1893. 



Pileus fleshy, convex-plane, 4-5 cm. broad ; surface pale with a reddish tint, the center 

 darker, innate-fibrillose, squamose, not viscid, margin thin; context white; lamellae hetero- 

 phyllous, rounded behind, subcrowded, flesh-colored with a reddish tint, 2-3 mm. broad; 

 spores hyaline, subglobose, 3.5 n\ stipe attenuate above, subsquamulose, subconcolorous, 

 fibrous, becoming hollow, 8 cm. long, 1 cm. thick. 



Type locality: New Jersey. 



Habitat: Mixed woods among fallen leaves. 



Distribution: New Jersey. 



