CLASSIFICATION OF AOARK 191 



Solitary or Bubcaespitose and crowded. Ai the base of stumps 

 in mixed woods. New Richmond. September. Rare. 



Onr specimens are well illustrated 03 Cooke's figures. The species 

 differs from /•'. lubrica in its usually glabrous pileus and the rust] 

 red base of stem; the spores are slightly Bmaller. 



518. Flammula alnicola IV 



Syst. .Mvc. 1821. 



Illustrations: Cooke. 111.. PI. 143. 



Gillet, Champignons de Prance, No. 282. 



Grevillea, Vol. VI, PI. 90. 



Ricken, Blatterpilze, PI. 58, Pig. •",. 



"PILEUS 5-7 cm. broad, convex then expanded, obtuse, not truly 

 viscid, lubricous, at first superficially fibriUose toward margin, 

 sometimes minutely scaly, cadmium-yellow, becoming rusty and 

 sometimes greenish. FLESH slightly compact, concolor. <iIU.s 

 subadnate, at times decurrent or rounded behind, broad, plane, at 

 first dingy-pallid or yellowish-pallid, at Length ferruginous. STEM 

 5-10 em. long. 6-12 mm. thick, attenuated-rooting at base, commonly 

 curved or flexuous, fibrUlose, at first cadmium yellow then becoming 

 rusty. CORTINA manifest, fibrilb.se or arachnoid. SPORES 

 elliptical, fix 4 micr. ODOR stron</ and pungent, bitter. TASTE 

 bitter. 



"On old stumps of frondose trees especially of abler and willow." 



This has been reported from the State, but 1 have found QO 



typical specimens. Ricken describes and figures a plant with 



smaller spores, which departs considerably from the figures of 

 Cooke, Gillet and those in Grevillea. The description given above 

 is adopted from that of Fries in Blonographia, and the figures <«f 

 Cooke, etc.. tit it well. /'. alnicola Bhould be recognized by its long, 

 rooting, caespitose stems, by the color ami by ili«- Btrong bitter 

 odor. Peck reports it from the Catskill ami Adirondack Mountains 

 only. 



