REPORT OF THE STATE BOTANIST I909 7I 



Hebeloma pascuense Pk. 



PASTURE HEBELOMA 



N. Y. State Mus. Rep't 53, p.844, pl.C, fig.21-27 



Pileus thin, convex becoming nearly plane, viscid when moist, 

 obscurely innately fibrillose, brownish clay color, often darker or 

 rufescent in the center, the margin when young often whitened 

 by the thin webby veil, flesh whitish, odor similar to that of rad- 

 ishes; lamellae close, adnexed, whitish becoming pale ochraceous; 

 stem firm, equal, solid, fibrillose, slightly mealy at the top, whitish 

 or pallid ; spores pale ochraceous, subellipsoid, uninucleate lo x 6 >/ . 



Pileus 2.5-5 cm broad ; stem 2.5-5 cm long, 4-6 mm thick. 



Gregarious or subcespitose. Stony pastures. Warren co. Oc- 

 tober. 



Closely related to Hebeloma fastibile Fr. but a smaller 

 species with a more slender stem, a different habit and habitat, dif- 

 ferently colored pileus and more crowded lamellae. Sometimes a 

 narrow brown zone or line encircles the pilous near the margin. 



Denudata 



Pileus glabrous, veil absent from the first. 



The species are easily distinguished from those of the preceding 

 section by the entire absence of a veil. 



KEY TO THE SPECIES 



Pileus white or whitish i 



Pileus some other color 3 



I Lamellae dingy flesh color sarcophylluni 



I Lamellae white or whitish becoming dingy ferruginous 2 



2 Pileus white or yellowish white album 



2 Pileus whitish or grayish white albidulum 



3 Plant having a radishlike odor crustuliniforme 



3 plant not having a radishlike odor 4 



4 Plant growing in sandy soil in open places colvini 



4 Plant growing in woods longicaudum 



Hebeloma sarcophyllum Pk. 

 PINK GILL HEBELOMA 



Ag. (Hebeloma) sarcophyllus Pk. N. Y. State Cab. Rcp't 23, 



p.96, pi. I, fig. 7-1 1 

 Pileus fleshy, obtusely conic or convex, glabrous, white, flesh 

 white, taste bitterish ; lamellae subclose, adnexed, deeply sinuate, 

 dingy flesh color ; stem equal, firm, stuft'ed, mealy or minutely 



