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decurrent, white; stem equal or narrowed at the base, straight or 

 flexuous, stuffed or hollow, viscid, white with white points or squam- 

 ules at the top; spores subelliptic, .00024-.0003 of an inch long, 

 .0002-.00024 broad. 



Pileus 1-2 inches broad; stem 1.5-3 inches long, 2-4 lines thick. 



Thin woods and open places. Sometimes cespitose. Lake Mo- 

 honk, Ulster CO. September and October. It may be distinguished 

 from its near allies by its hollow stem. It is said to be edible but 

 I have not tried it. The viscidity of the stem makes it difficult to 

 pluck from its place of growth and unpleasant to handle. 



Hygrophorus virgatulus Pk. 



BLACK LINED HYGROPHORUS 

 State Mus. Rep't 26. 1874. p. 64. 



Pileus convex or nearly plane, viscid when moist, minutely 

 streaked with inn?.te blackish fibrils, whitish with a brownish center, 

 flesh white ; lamellae distant, arcuate, decurrent, white becoming 

 brownish in drying ; stem equal or tapering downward, solid, viscid, 

 white with a few small white floccose scales at the top; spores 

 .0003-.00035 of an inch long, .00016-.0002 broad. 



Pileus 1-2 inches broad ; stem 2-3 inches long, 2-3 lines thick. 



Woods. Rensselaer county. October. Very rare. The speci- 

 mens here described were found in 1872 but no specimens of this 

 species have since been found. The species is closely related to 

 H. laurae from which it may be separated by its smaller size, 

 more dingy color of the pileus with its innate fibrils and by its more 

 soft floccose scales at the top of the stem. 



Hygrophorus laurae Morg. 

 LAURA HYGROPHORUS 

 Jour. Cinn. Soc. Nat. Sci. 6. 1883. p. 180. . 



Pileus fleshy, convex, umbonate, becoming expanded and de- 

 pressed, more or less irregular, glutinous, white with a reddish or 

 brownish tinge, specially on the disk, flesh white ; lamellae unequal, 

 adnate or decurrent, distant, white ; stem more or less curved or 

 crooked, often tapering downward, solid, yellowish white, the apex 

 scabrous with scaly points ; spores elliptic, apiculate, .0003 of an 

 inch long, .0002 broad. 



Pileus 2-4 inches broad ; stem 2-4 inches long, 3-6 lines thick. 



