12 BEPOET or THE STATE BOTANIST. 



Cortinarius rimosus n. sp. 



Pileus flesh}', firm, convex or plane, glabrous, at first pale 

 grayish violaceous, then tinged with reddish-brown, the surface 

 cracking into appressed scales or becoming variously rimose, 

 flesh whitish; lamelku rather broad, distant, subventricose, emar- 

 ginate, violaceous when young, becoming brownish ochraceous 

 with age; stem equal or sliglitly thickened at the base, white 

 and silky with the white veil, tinged with violaceous within; 

 spores subelliptical, .0001 to .0005 in. long, .00024 to .00028 

 broad, usually' containing a single large nucleus. 



Pileus 2 to 4 in . broad ; stem 1.5 to 3 in . long, 4 to 6 lines 

 thick. 



Grassy ground in open places in thin woods. "Westport. 

 September. 



This species belongs to the subgenus Dermncybe. It is a 

 rather large and stout plant and remarkable for the tendency of 

 the epidermis to crack in areas. The thin margin is often split. 

 The species belongs to the same group as C. caninus and 

 C. azureus, from both of which it dilTers ia its rimose pileus and 

 distant lamelia\ The color of the j'oung pileus is suggestive of 

 that of Triclioloma persoaatum. 



Gomphidius nigricans 7i. sj). 



Pileus convex or nearly plane, pale brownish-red, covered with 

 a tough gluten which becomes black in drying, flesh firm, 

 whitish; lamell;c distant, decurrent, some of them forked, white 

 becoming smoky-brown, black m the dried plant ; stem subequai, 

 longer than the diameter of the pileus, glutinous, solid, at first 

 whitish especially at the top, soon blackish by the drying of the 

 gluten, whitish within, slightly tinged Avith red toward the base; 

 spores oblong-fusoid, OOOG to .001 in. long, .00u24 to .0003 broad. 



Pileus 1 to 2 in. broad; stem 1.5 to 2.5 in. long, 2 to 4 lines 

 thick. 



Tender pine trees. Westport. September. 



Tliis species is easily known by the i)lackening gluten which 

 smears both pileus and stem and even forms a veil b}' which the 

 laraeliic in the young plant are concealed. In the dried state 

 the wliolo plant is black. 



