REPORT OF THE STATE BOTANIST 43 



Carex riparia Curtis. 



Two forms of this sedge are found growing together in a swamp near 

 Karner. So far as can be seen they are subject to precisely the same 

 conditions, but one is considerably smaller in all its parts than the other 

 and presents quite a dififerent aspect. Its stems are 1.5 to 2 feet high, its 

 leaves scarcely 3 lines broad, its pistillate spikes 9 to 18 lines long and 

 its perigynia 2 lines long. I have labeled the specimens var. inferior. 



Bromus mollis L. 



Islip, Suffolk county. May. 



This rare grass was credited to our State in the Eighteenth Report on 

 the authority of the Manual, but no specimens have represented it in the 

 Herbarium till now. 



Tricholoma decorosum Peck. 



Adirondack mountains, near Tupper Lake. 



This is a very pretty but rather rare mushroom. It has now been 

 found in three counties^ Greene, Allegany and Franklin. When viewed 

 from above, the strongly squamose tufted forms might easily be mistaken 

 for Pholiota squarrosa, but the absence of an annulus and the white color . 

 of the lamellse and spores easily distinguish it. 



Psilocybe squalidella Peck. 



Abundant on damp, mucky soil in the Adirondack region. It is also 

 quite variable in color and in the shape of the pileus. When moist the 

 latter may be yellow, reddish-yellow or brown; and when dry either 

 tawny or ochraceous. It is either hemispherical or convex, with the 

 lamellae broad and nearly plane or ventricose. Variety deformata has 

 the margin of the pileus elevated and the lamellae much and irregularly 

 branched or anastomosing. 



Deconica bryophila Pk. 



This species occurs in autumn as well as in spring. Specimens were 

 found growing in sandy soil in heathy places near Delmar in October, 

 The spores are purplish-brown. 



Coprinus comatus Fr. var. breviceps n. var. 



Pileus before expansion subovate, shorter and broader than in the 

 typical form, 1.5 to 2.5 in. high. Dumping grounds, Albany. Novem- 

 ber. H. Neimaii. 



