1891.1 



New Species of Montana Fungi. 



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N. Suksdorf, Aug. 9th, 1882; Mt. Stewart, collected by T. S. 



Brande^ree, 



Aug. 



1883; Mt. Rainier at 8,000 feet altitude, 



collected by C. V. Piper, Aug. 1888. 

 Cambridge, Mass., Oct. 1800. 



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New Species of Montana Fungi. 



T. B. ELLIS AND F. W. ANDERSON. 



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(with PLATE VII.) 



Lentinus pholiotoides. — Cespitose, 2 cm. 



hig 



h, 



tough 



and elastic. Pileus convex 1.5-2 cm. diam., appressed 

 pilose-squamose with a few appressed wart-like scales in the 

 disk; color at first yellowish white, becoming subferruginous. 

 Lamellae sinuate, attached with a decurrent tooth, hardly 

 crowded, 2-2.5 mm. wide, margins acute, minutely fimbriate- 

 serrulate, dull white becoming yellowish, subventricose. 

 Stem mostly curved or crooked, tough, elastic, spongy within, 

 minutely pubescent above, loosely floccose-squamose below, a 

 little paler than the pileus, 2 cm. high, 3 mm. thick. Spores 

 white, oblong, obtuse with an oblique apiculus, 10— 14x5-6^u. 

 Basidia 35-40x8-10/*, clavate-cylindrical. Has the aspect of 

 a Pholiota. — On dead Populus tremuloides. Sand Coulee, 

 Montana, May, 1889, 



Helotium Montaniense.- — Substipitate, pale flesh color, 



margin 



re- 



1—1.5 mm. across, concave with the 

 pand and lobed or undulate, rather lighter out- 

 side, glabrous and subplicate, contracted into a 

 short stipe about 1 mm. long or nearly sessile. 

 In shape and size about like Mollisia cinerea 

 Batsch, but differing in color and in being stipi- 



