REPORT OF THE STATE BOTANIST I908 49 



I PJleus brown or blackish brown peckianum 



I Pilous sonic otiier color 2 



2 Pileus persistently pale yellow, cuspidate cuspidatum 



2 Pileus destitute of these characters 3 



3 Pileus yellow or smoky yellow luteum 



3 Pileus pale yellow becoming darker with age variabile 



3 Pileus grayish brown minus 



Entoloma salmoneum Pk. 



SALMON ENTOLOMA 



N. Y. State Mus. Rep't 24, p. 65, pl.4, fig.6-9 



Pileus thin, conic or campanulate, subacute or with a minute 

 papilla or small cusp at the apex, glabrous, moist, salmon color, 

 the margin sometimes uneven or lobed ; lamellae broad, subdistant, 

 ventricose, salmon color ; stem slender, equal, glabrous, hollow, 

 colored like the pileus ; spores subglobose, angular, .0004-0005 of 

 an inch in (Uameter. 



Pileus 8-15 lines broad; stem 3-6 inches long, 1-2 lines thick. 

 Gregarious. Damp ground in dense woods, specially under spruce 

 and balsam fir trees or among mosses. Rensselaer county and 

 Adirondack region. July and August. 



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Entoloma cuspidatum Pk. 



CUSPIDATE ENTOLOMA 



N. Y. State Mus. Rep't 24, p.64, pl.2, fig.14-18 



Pileus thin, conic or campanulate, moist, shining, glabrous, with 

 a distinct cusp at the apex, pale yellow, the thin margin exceeding 

 the lamellae, often irregular or slightly lobed ; lamellae ascending, 

 broad, subdistant, narrowed toward the stem, adnexed, often eroded 

 or subdenticulate on the edge, pale yellow becoming flesh color ; 

 stem equal, hollow, glabrous, slightly fibrous, colored like the 

 pileus; spores subglobose, angidar, .0004-0005 of an inch in 

 diameter. 



Pileus 8-12 lines broad; stem 3-5 inches long, 1-2 lines thick. 



Swamps and sphagnous marshes. Rensselaer county and Ad- 

 irondack region. Also on Fishers island. C. C. Hanmer. August 

 and October. 



Closely allied to E. salmoneum Pk. from which it scarcely 

 dift'crs except in color and in the more fully and commonly de- 

 veloped cusp of the pileus. In both, the moist pileus is sometimes 

 striatulate, the position of the lamellae being faintly shown through 



