Parr 6, 1916] AGARICACHAE 379 
thin, striatulate: lamellae emarginate, subdistant, broad, ventricose, yellow, darker with age, 
orange or purplish on the edges: spores subellipsoid, 8 u long: stipe glabrous, pale-yellow, hollow, 
often flexuous or irregular, 5 cm. long, 2-4 mm. thick. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Northville, New York. 
Hasitat: On the ground in woods. 
DisTRIBUTION: New York and Massachusetts to Virginia and Ohio. 
ILLUSTRATION: Hard, Mushrooms f, 173. 
9. Hydrocybe Peckii (Atk.) Murriil. 
Hygrophorus Peckii Atk. Jour. Myc. 8: 114. 1902. 
Pileus convex with the margin somewhat incurved, often depressed, solitary or gregarious, 
1-2.5 em. broad; surface pinkish-buff, finely striate when moist, very slimy, the slime some- 
times greenish when young: context having a fetid odor; lamellae arcuate-decurrent, distant, 
broad, concolorous: spores ellipsoid, slightly inequilateral, smooth, granular, 6-8 X 4-5 yu: 
stipe fragile, often splitting, slimy, concolorous, hollow, 6-10 cm. long, 2-4 mm. thick. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Piseco, New York. 
HasitaT: On the ground in woods, pastures, and bushy places. 
DISTRIBUTION: Eastern United States. 
10. Hydrocybe conica (Scop.) P. Karst. Bidr. Finl. Nat. Folk 32: 236. 
1879, 
Agaricus conicus Scop. Fl. Carn. ed. 2. 2: 443. 1772. 
Hygrophorus conicus Fries, Epicr. Myc. 331. 1838. 
Pileus thin, fragile, conic, usually acute, often lobed at the margin, 2-5 cm. broad, rarely 
reaching 8 cm.; surface viscid when moist, glabrous or fibrillose, sometimes becoming rimose, 
some shade of red or yellow, at times tinged with green, almost always turning black on drying: 
context thin, suffused with rosy hues; lamellae almost free, attenuate behind, thin, rather 
crowded, ventricose, yellow, blackening on drying: spores ellipsoid, hyaline, 8-11 X 6-8 pu: 
stipe equal, fibrous-striate, hollow, yellow, becoming black on drying, 3-10 cm. long, 3-7 mm. 
thick. 
TYPE LocaLity: Carniola. 
Hapitat: In moist woods and grassy places. 
E DistrisutTion: Greenland to Bermuda and the Bahamas and west to the Pacific coast; also in 
Beker Bull. Herb. Fr. pl. 50 (as A. croceus); Gill. Champ. Fr. pl. 133 (332); Mycologia 
2: ol. 27, f. 8; Ricken, Blatterp. Deutschl. pl. 8, f. 4; Schaeff. Fung. Bavar. pl. 2. 
Exsiceatt: Ellis, N. Am. Fungi 1013; Sydow, Myc. Mar. 2712. 
11. Hydrocybe ruber (Peck) Murrill. 
Hygrophorus ruber Peck, Bull. N. Y. State Mus. 116: 32. 1907. 
Pileus thin, conic, commonly unexpanded, acute or subobtuse, cuspidate or narrowly 
umbonate, 1.5-5 cm. broad; surface very viscid or glutinous, bright-red, not turning black on 
drying: lamellae narrow, ascending, adnexed, subdistant, yellow or yellowish-brown: spores 
subellipsoid, 6-7-5 X 4-5 w: stipe equal, viscid, hollow, concolorous, 2.5 cm. long, 2 mm. 
thick. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Ellis, Massachusetts. 
HanitaT: Among mosses in wooded swamps. — . 
DISTRIBUTION: Massachusetts and the mountains of North Carolina. 
12. Hydrocybe cuspidata (Peck) Murrill. 
Hygrophorus cuspidatus Peck, Bull. Torrey Club 24: 141. 1897. 
Pileus thin, subcampanulate, cuspidate, 1.5-2.5 cm. broad; surface glabrous, red: lamellae 
broad, ventricose, yellow: spores ellipsoid, 12-16 X 6-8: stipe slender, equal, glabrous, 
hollow, 2.5—5 cm. long, 2 mm. thick. 
TYPE LocaLity: Ottowa, Canada. 
Hasitat: On the ground. : 
Distrrution: Known only from the type locality. 
