November, 1907] Mycologkal Bulletin No. 83. 369 



NOTES FROM MUSHROOM LITERATURE. IX. 



\V. A. KELLERMAN. 



The report of the State Botanist, 1906, Charles H. Peck, was piibHshed 

 July, 1907, being Bulletin 116, Botany 10, New York State Museum. It 

 can be purchased of the New York State Education Department, Albany, 

 for 35 cents per copy. It is dispensable to every student of our Mush- 

 rooms. These new species by Dr. Peck are included : Amanitopsis 

 pulverulenta, Boletus subpunctipes, CoUybia campanella, Cortinarius 

 validipes, Entoloma minus, h'lammula expansa, Hygrophorus burnhami, 

 Marasmius phyllophilus, Mycena albogrisea, Omphalia pusillissima, 

 Peckiella hymenii, Pleurotus terrestris, Russula foetentula, Russula 

 modesta, Russula pectinatoides, Tricholoma hirtellum, Phallogaster whitei, 

 Hymenogaster anomalus, Leptonia transformata, Hygrophorus ruber, 

 Hygrophorus serotinus. 



Remarks and observations of a few .species are here transcribed. 



"Boletus nigrellus Pk. — A form of this extremely rare species was 

 found in Sand Lake, in which the pileus is yellowish or greenish yellow 

 when fresh, and its Hesh as well as the tubes and stems slowly changes 

 to a dingy flesh color and then to black or black where wounded, as in 

 the type. 



"Cantharellus cantharellus (Schw.) Fr. — A form of this Mush- 

 room occurred plentifully the past season near Menands. The hymenium 

 was distinctly marked by branches and anastomosing. 



"Paxillus panuoides Fr. — A singular form of this species was found 

 by Dr. H. von Schrenk growing on pulp paper that had been stored for 

 a considerable time in an enclosure where there was not much light. Both 

 habitat and place were unusual and evidently had a modifying influence 

 on the character of the specimens. Some of them w^ere four inches long, 

 including the narrow-ed stem-like base, and two or three inches broad. 

 They were nearly white when fresh, but in drying they gradually assumed 

 a yellowish tint approaching the normal color of the species." 



About half dozen pages are devoted to the Edible Fungi, the following 

 being fully described and illustrated by colored plates: Tricholoma 

 hirtellum (new species), Tricholoma nudum, Clitocybe amethystina, 

 Clitocybe ochropurpurea, Russula compacta, Russula earlei, Russula 

 pectinatoides (new species), Russula uncialis, Agaricus micromegathus. 

 Boletus frostii, and Boletus rugosiceps. 



The New York species of Hygrophorus are described and keys 

 furnished to the species of the three groups into which the genus is divided. 

 Prof. Peck says : "The waxy character of the hymenium is the chief dis- 

 tinguishing character of the genus; the lamellae are usually thick, distant, 

 or sub-distant, and their hymenial surfaces somewhat separable from the 

 trama. Many species with decurrent gills are similar in appearance to 

 .species of Clitocybe, but such species may generally be distinguished by 

 their distant lamellae and their viscid pileus and stem." l-'orty-two .species 

 are included in the monograph. 



The New York .species of Russula, .')9 .species, are similarly treated. 

 Dr. Peck, after giving the technical description, says: "This genus is 

 closely related to the genus Lactarius, from which it is easily distinguished 

 l)y the absence of the milky juice. * * * "The pileus is destitute of 

 concentric zones, but in the genus Lactarius such markings are frequent. 

 The red colors which are so conspicuous and common in this genus arc 

 rarely, if ever, seen in Lactarius. In both genera many species have a mild 

 or an agreeable flavor, and many others have an acrid, hot or peppery 

 taste. This disagreeable flavor is generally destroyed in cooking so that 

 nearly all the species that have been tried have been found to be edible." 



A New Naucoria. — The illustration shown as Fig. 373. represents a 

 new species recently described by Professor Atkinson in the Journal of 

 Mycology. His statements in full are as follows : 



