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tlit- state, although it varies in size and the smaller plants have 

 less distant gills, smoother sinus and smaller Bpores. Probably 

 because of the advance of cooler weather the plants mature Blowly 

 and the spores have qo1 attained their full size in the small plants. 

 The vi'iluw color is sometimes confined to the base, sometimes it 

 extends halfway or more than halfway the length of the stem. The 

 latter conditio!] may turn ou1 to represent <;. flavipes Pk. The 

 plants turn blackish when dried, bu1 differ from G. nigricans Pk. in 

 the absence of a partial veil. Ricken considers 0. gracilis Berk, to 

 be identical, which is very probable. 0. furcatus Pk. differs chiefly, 

 according to Peek's description, in the Lack of the yellow color a1 

 the base of the stem; it is said to occur under tamaracks nls... 



153. Gomphidius vinicolor Pk. minor. 

 N. Y. State Mus. Rep. 51, 1898. 



PILEUS 1-2 cm. broad, convex then plane sometimes umbonate, 

 glabrous, even, with a viscid or glutinous separable pellicle, wine 

 red to rufous-cinnamon, fuscons in the renter, paler toward margin. 

 FLESH thick, pale incarnate. GILLS decurrent, subtriangular, 

 rather distant, distinct, thh-kish, broad in the middle, not or rarely 

 forked, olive-brown to fuscous-brown, sprinkled by dark spores. 

 STEM 3-4 cm. long, 2-4 mm. thick, slender, equal, even, solid, viscid 

 from the evanescent veil, flexuous, brick color to vinaceous, concolor 

 within, not yellow at base, silky-fibrillose. SI'OKKS elongated-ob 

 long to snbfnsiform, 13-10x60.5 niicr., smooth, smoky-brown. CYS- 

 TIDTA abundant, subcylindrical, obtuse. L20-135 x 16-18 micr. 

 ODOR very slight birt disagreeable. 



Gregarious or solitary. On the ground in low, swampy w Is in 



region of hemlock and pine. New Richmond. September. Rar< 



This species is referred here as a minor form of Q. vinicolor Pk. 

 from whose description it differs in the smaller size and smaller 

 spores. My experience with (!. maculatus leads me to suspeci thai 

 the spores of small plants do not mature readily, as is shown also 

 by the less smoky gills. Peck gives the spores 1.7.5-20x6-7.5 micr. 

 and the type plants were much larger. I have found our plant on 

 several occasions and as it seems to be constant, it may be necessary 

 to separate it. When dried, it becomes black. Sum.- considet I 

 vinicolor Pk. identical with 0. gracilis B. & Br.; the In- 

 scribed with the base of the stem vellow. 



