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Entoloma sericeum Fr. 

 SILKY ENTOLOMA. MEADOW ENTOLOMA 



Pileus fleshy but thin, convex becoming nearly plane, sometimes 

 minutely umbilicate, glabrous, hygrophanous, brownish when 

 moist, paler silky and shining when dry, incurved on the margin, 

 odor and taste farinaceous ; lamellae rather broad, subdistant, ad- 

 ncxed, grayish becoming salmon color ; stem short, equal, hollow, 

 fibrillose, colored like or paler than the pileus ; spores subglobose, 

 angular, .0003 -.0004 of an inch long, .00024-.0003 broad. 



Pileus 1-2 inches broad; stem i~2 inches long, 1-2 lines thick. 



Meadows and pastures. West Albany. June. Very rare. 

 Found but once. 



Entoloma grayanum Pk. 



GRAY ENTOLOMA 



N. Y. State Mus. Rep't. 24, p.64 



Pileus fleshy, convex becoming nearly plane, often wavy or 

 irregular on the margin, glabrous, hygrophanous, watery white 

 or yellowish white when moist, shining and whitish when dry; 

 lamellae close, adnexed, whitish becoming pink; stem equal, firm, 

 solid, white; spores subglobose, angular, .0003 of an inch in 

 diameter. 



Pileus 1.5-2 inches broad; stem 2-3 inches long, 3-5 lines thick. 



Old wood roads and pastures. Rensselaer and Essex counties. 

 August to October. Not common. 



Entoloma rhodopolium Fr. 

 ROSY ENTOLOMA 



Pileus thin, fleshy, fragile, subcampanulate, nearly plane or 

 slightly depressed in the center, fibrillose when young, soon 

 glabrous, hygrophanous, brownish and striatulate on the margin 

 when moist, silky, shining and livid isabelline when dry, flesh 

 white ; lamellae subdistant, sinuate, adnate, white becoming rosy ; 

 stem equal or tapering upward, hollow, pminose or mealy at the top, 

 white; spores angular, .ooo3-.cxx)4 of an inch long, .00024-.0003 

 broad. 



Pileus 1.5-3 inches broad; stem 1.5-4 inches long, 2-3 lines thick. 



Woods. Albany county and Adirondacks. August and Sep- 

 tember. 



