Bhodosporae 



Spores broadly elliptical, smooth, 6-7x5/a; cystidia ventricose, 65- Piuteus 

 75xi8-2O/A Mas see. 



New York, Peck, Rep. 32, 38; West Virginia, Pennsylvania, North 

 Carolina, New Jersey, frequent on decaying logs, stumps, pine and 

 other woods. Mcllvaine. 



At times the caps are a deep sepia-brown. It is readily distinguished 

 from P. cervinus by the wrinkled, downy disk of the cap and the gills 

 having dark-brown edges. Smell rather strong. Professor Peck says 

 he has not seen it with the margin fimbriate. Neither have I, though 

 this is prominent in the European species. 



P. umbrosus is a fine species, equal in every way to P. cervinus, 

 which is seldom excelled. Caps only are tender. 



P. pelli'tllS Fr. Pileus 1-2 in. across. Flesh thin, soft, white, con- 

 vex then plane, somewhat umbonate, regular, silky-fibrous, dry, white. 

 Gills free, rounded behind, crowded, \% line broad, ventricose, white 

 then flesh-color, margin slightly toothed. Stem about 2 in. long, 2-3 

 lines thick, slightly thickened at the base, even, glabrous, shining, white, 

 stuffed. Spores elliptical, smooth, iox6//,. 



Among grass at the roots of trees, etc. 



Our only Piuteus with a pure white, even pileus and stem. Super- 

 ficially resembling Entoloma prunuloides, which differs in the broadly 

 emarginate not free gills, and in the strong smell of new meal. 

 Massee. 



Mt. Gretna, Pa., October, 1898. Mcllvaine. 



Pileus up to 3 in. across. Gills % in. broad, free, moist, imbricated. 

 Stem up to 5 in. long, easily detachable from cap, solid, juicy, solitary 

 and cespitose. On very old sawdust, upon which grass was growing. 



Tender, excellent. 



** Pileus frosted, etc. 



P. granula'ris Pk. sprinkled with grains. Pileus convex or nearly 



plane, subumbonate, rugose-wrinkled, gramilose or granulose-villose , 

 varying in color from yellow to brown. Lamellae rather broad, crowded, 

 ventricose, whitish, then flesh colored. Stem equal, solid, colored like 

 the pileus, often paler at the top, velvety-pubescent, rarely scaly. Spores 

 subglobose or broadly elliptical, 6.5-8x5-6.5^. 



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