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becoming reddish brown with age, either wholly or in the center 

 only ; lamellae ascending, moderately close, broad in front, often 

 eroded on the edge, white or whitish, becoming pale salmon color ; 

 stem long, slender, equal, hollow, slightly fibrillose striate, whitish 

 or pallid sometimes becoming reddish brown with age, often with 

 a whitish mycelium at the base ; spores subglobose, angular, uni- 

 nucleate, .0004-.0005 of an inch in diameter. 



Pileus 8-15 lines broad; stem 3-5 inches long, 1-2 lines thick. 

 In sphagnous marshes. Floodwood, Franklin co. August. 

 Remarkable for the variability in the shape and color of the 

 pileus. Specimens sometimes appear as if they had been sun 

 scorched, 



Entoloma minus Pk. 



SMALLER ENTOLOMA 



N. Y. State Mus. Bui. 116, p.23 



Pileus very thin, subconic or hemispheric becoming convex, 

 glabrous, grayish brown, darker in the center; lamellae thin, close, 

 at first ascending, sinuate, adnexed, whitish becoming flesh color; 

 stem slender, glabrous, hollow, white ; spores subglobose, angular, 

 .0O03-.OOO4 of an inch in diameter. 



Pileus 8-12 lines broad; stem 1-1.5 inches long, about i line 

 thick. 



Ground in woods. East Schaghticoke, Rensselaer co. August, 



A small rare species which departs somewhat from the general 

 character of this subgenus, but agrees better with it than with any 

 other. 



Leptonidea 



Pileus flocculose or squamulose, dry. 



KEY TO THE SPECIES 



Pileus umbonate jubatum 



Pileus not umbonate I 



I Pileus white sericelhim 



I Pileus not white 2 



2 Pileus with violaceous tints cyaneum 



2 Pileus not having violaceous tints 3 



3 Pileus minutely scabrous scabrinellum 



3 Pileus squamulose dysthalcs 



3 Pileus silky, yellowish green flavoviridc 



