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easily separates from the slightly bulbous base of the steui and 

 adheres to the soil that surrounds it. Both it and the annulus 

 are of a beautiful, chrome yellow color. 



Tricholoma radicatum n. sp. 



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Pileus fleshy, firm, umbraculiform or broadly convex, dry, 

 minutely silky fibrillose or obscurely fibrillose squamulose, some- 

 what shining, pale grayish brown, the center usually darker and 

 often tinged with reddish brown, the margin thin, cuticle sepa- 

 rable, flesh white, taste disagreeable; lamellae thin, close. 

 emarginate, adnexed, having a decurrent tooth, white ; stem firm, 

 nearly equal, hollow with a small cavity, slightly fibrillose, dis- 

 tinctly radicating, -white; spores broadly elliptic, .(M)02-.00024 

 of an inch long. .0001G-.0002 broad. 



Pileus 2-3 inches broad; stem 1.5-4 inches long, 3-5 lines 

 thick. Under coniferous trees. North Elba. September. 



This mushroom loses its unpleasant flavor in cooking and is 

 edible. A more full and popular description is given in another 

 part of the report. 



Clitocybe inversa (Scop.) Fr. 



Pine groves. Near Northville, Fulton co. August. A stout 

 form with a lliiok stem. 



Mycena rugosoides u. sj). 



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Pileus fleshy but thin, campanulate, usually broadly umbon- 

 ate. glabrous, hygrophanous, even but striate on the margin when 

 moist, paler and uneven when dry, with close irregular radiating 

 lugae, variable in color; lamellae subdistant, rounded or emargi- 

 nate next the stem, adnexed, whitish or smoky white; stem long, 

 even, glabrous, hollow, radicating, villose tomentose at the base, 

 white or pallid, often tinged with reddish brown at the base; 

 spores elliptic, .0003 of an inch long, .0002 broad, granular. 



Pileus fi-12 lines broad; stem 1.5-3 inches long, .5-1.5 lines 

 thick. Gregarious on much decayed, nmssy, prostrate trunks of 

 coniferous trees. North Elba. September. 



Three forms occur which are se|»arable by color. One is wholly 

 while, another has 1 he ])ih'iis and sleiii cinereous or grayish 



