122 C. H. Kaufman 



mouths angular, 1-1.5 per millimeter, dissepiments thick, entire. 

 Stem stout and often rather long, 10-12(15) cm. long, tapering 

 upwards from the clavate base, very abruptly short-pointed at 

 base, subviscid, pale yellow and more or less reticulate at apex, 

 conspicuously and longitudinally streaked by ''maroon" color, 

 white at the very base, 1-2.5 cm. thick above, 2-5.5 cm. thick 

 below, solid; flesh yellowish upwards, at length tinged with 

 reddish, whitish downwards. Spores 18-24(27) X 6-9 /x, ven- 

 tricose-fusiform, smooth and even, yellowish-ochraceous, exo- 

 spore tinted reddish; basidia 4-spored, 48-50 x 12-15 //; cys- 

 tidia fairly abundant, ventricose-lanceolate, hyaline, 90 x 15-24 ix, 

 obtuse at apex, pedicel slender. Odor and taste mild. 



On the ground in fir forests. Mt. Hood, Oregon. Septem- 

 ber 28 and 30. Collected by L. E. Wehmeyer. 



Only B. russelli and B. Betula have spores approaching in 

 size those of this species. By the stem characters, however, its 

 relationship is elsewhere. In the fresh condition the stem is 

 covered by a delicate hoariness, of cobweb-like texture, which is 

 responsible for the slight viscidity in wet weather, and which is 

 continuous at first with the incurved delicate membranous mar- 

 gin of the pileus. Occasionally the tubes verge into the reticula- 

 tions at the apex of the stem, so as to appear slightly decurrent. 

 The flesh and tubes do not turn blue when wounded. Under the 

 arrangement of Dr. Peck, the species inclines towards the Ca- 

 lopodes, although the stems in the specimens seen were reticu- 

 late only at the apex. It departs from the characters assumed 

 for the Edules in the tubes not being at first stuffed, although 

 it approaches such large species as B. eximius and B. edulis 

 in color and size. Murrill (Mycologia, 4:98, 217) named and 

 described this species, but evidently under other weather con- 

 ditions, as its pileus is said to be bay color and its surface 

 composed of floccose, but rigid, conic persistent papillae. 



Agaricaceae 



Amanita junquillea Quel. — This is reported from North 

 Carolina by Beardslee (4), also as A. gemmata (Fr.) Gill, by 

 Coker (9). I have collected the North Carolina plant a number 



