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adnexed, minutely floccose on the edge, yellowish white or pallid ; 

 stem slender, equal, stuffed or hollow, with a very small cavity, 

 fibrillose or subsquamulose, colored like or a little paler than the 

 pileus ; spores subglobose, .00024-.0003 of an inch long, .0002-.00024 

 broad. 



The hairy cap tricholoma grows in tufts or singly on or about 

 pine stumps in Wading River, Suffolk co. and occurs in August. 

 It is a very rare species and has been found but once. It is related 

 to Tricholoma a 1 b o f i m b r i a t u m Trog., from which it 

 is separated by its hairy cap, white flesh and less crowded gills not 

 fimbriate on the margin. The hairs of the cap are often collected 

 in minute tufts giving the cap an appearance similar to that of the 

 brownish caps of the honey-colored armillaria, but unlike that 

 species it never has a collar on the stem. The caps are 1-1.5 inches 

 broad, the stem 2-3 inches long and 2-3 lines thick. 



Tricholoma nudum (Bull.) Fr. 

 NAKED TRICHOLOM.\ 



PLATE 104, FIG. 1-9 



Pileus thin, broadly convex, nearly plane or slightly depressed in 

 the center, obtuse or occasionally slightly umbonate, incurved on the 

 thin naked margin when young, pale violaceous or lavender, fading 

 with age and the escape of moisture to a pale grayish brown, often 

 slightly tinged with reddish or yellowish hues, flesh of the young 

 plant tinged with the color of the pileus, becoming white with age, 

 taste mild ; lamellae thin, narrow, close, slightly sinuate, adnate or 

 decurrent, colored like the pileus when young, becoming whitish 

 with age ; stem firm, equal, fibrous, stuffed or hollow, colored like 

 the pileus ; spores pale flesh color in mass, elliptic, .00024-.0003 of 

 an inch long, .00012-.00016 broad. 



The naked tricholoma is a rare species with us. The specimens 

 tested and figured on plate 104 were collected in Electric park, 

 Columbia co., October 29, by Mr S. H. Burnham. The plants were 

 found growing in flower beds, either singly or in clusters, and when 

 young and fresh they are throughout of a beautiful violet color ap- 

 proaching lavender, but this color fades and changes with age and 

 with the escape of moisture and the cap becomes a pale pinkish gray 

 or dingy reddish, the stem and gills also changing in a similar man- 

 ner. The cap is generally obtuse but sometimes umbonate. The 

 margin is very thin and when young is incurved and sometimes 



