REPORT OF THE STATE BOTANIST I908 57 



Entoloma rhodopolium umbilicatum Pk. [X. Y. 

 State I\Ius. Rep't 38, p. 109] is not a good entoloma and has 

 been published in the 40th report, page 53 under the name C 1 i to - 

 p i 1 u s s u b V i li s Pk. 



Entoloma clypeatum L. 

 SHIELD ENTOLOMA 



Pileus fleshy but thin, fragile, campanulate, then expanded, um- 

 bonate or sometimes obtuse, glabrous, hygrophanous, lurid or 

 brown when moist, gray and somewhat shining when dry, some- 

 times virgate and spotted, flesh white ; lamellae broad, ventricose, 

 subdistant, rounded behind, adnexed, seceding, serrulate on the 

 edge, dingy flesh color ; stem equal, fragile, fibrillose, stuffed or 

 hollow, slightly pruinose at the top, white or grayish ; spores ir- 

 regidar, subangTjlar, .0003-0004 of an inch in diameter. 



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



Grassy places, sometimes among sphagnum. Albany, Rensselaer 

 and Steuben counties. Spring and autumn. 



Entoloma strictius irregulare Pk. in the 53d Re- 

 port of the New York State Museum, page 856, plate D, figures 

 8-15, appears now to belong to this species rather than to E. 

 strictius. 



Entoloma strictius Pk. 



STRICT ENTOLOMA 



N. Y. State Cab. Rep't 23, p.88, pl.2, fig.6-9 



Pileus submembranous, broadly convex or expanded, umbonate, 

 glabrous, shining, hygrophanous, grayish brown and generally 

 striatulate on the inargin when moist, paler when dry; lamellae 

 broad, rounded behind, adnexed or nearly free, whitish becoming 

 flesh color ; stem straight, equal or slightly tapering upward, silky 

 fibrillose or glabrous, hollow, colored like or a little paler than the 

 pileus, often a dense mycelioid tomentum at the base; spores 

 angular, .0004-.0005 of an inch long, .0003-.0004 broad. 



Pileus 1-2 inches broad ; stem 2-4 inches long, 1-2 lines thick. 



Damp places in woods or their borders. June to October. 



The regular pileus and usually straight stem give a beautiful 

 and symmetrical appearance to this species. 



E n t o lorn a graveolens Pk. [N. Y. State Mus. Rep't 53, 

 p.844 and 54, p. 165] has been omitted. It is closely allied to 



