REPORT OF THE BOTANIST. 463 
Cortinarius (HycrocyBE) puLcHER Peck. 
Pileus conical, then broadly convex, umbonate, often irregular, 
hygrophanous, ochraceous, shining and sometimes  striatulate, 
when moist, pale-ochraceous when dry ; lamellee subdistant, broad, 
emarginate, uneven on the edge, ochraceous; stem equal, solid, 
subflexuous, silky-fibrillose, whitish or pale ochraceous; spores 
.00038 x .0002 in. 
Plant gregarious, 2’ high, pileus 1’+1.5’ broad, stem 1-2” thick. 
Ground in wood. New Scotland. October. 
LEPISTA CINERASCENS (vl. 
Ground in pine woods. Croghan. September. 
Our specimens were scarcely mature and the margin of the 
pileus shows no striations and therefore they are referred to this 
species with some hesitation. 
Paxintius strigosus Peck. 
Pileus convex, or expanded, dry, brittle, strigose with scattered 
stiff hairs, whitish; lamelle close, narrow, subdecurrent, whitish, 
then pale cinnamon color, some of them forked; stem equal, solid, 
pruinose, concolorous; spores brownish-ochre, subglobose, .00018 
in. in diameter. 
Plant 2’ high, pileus 1’-1.5’ broad, stem 1°-1.5” thick. 
Ground among fallen leaves in woods. Croghan. September. 
The young plant might readily be taken for a species of Clito- 
cybe. It is at best an aberrant species, midway between Lepista 
and Paxillus, differing from the former in its highly colored spores 
and from the latter in its distinct, not anastomosing, lamelle. 
Owing to the very brittle character of the pileus the lamelle are 
not easily separated from it. The hairs of the pileus are either 
erect or appressed. 
HyGroPHORUS PURUS %. Sp. 
Pure white and very fragile; pileus at first conical, then 
expanded and cupulate from the recurving of the thin margin, 
very viscid, often irregular; lamelle subdistant, broad, ventricose, 
emarginate, with a slight decurrent tooth ; stem smooth, subflexu- 
ous, hollow, very viscid; spores .0003 x .0002 in. 
Plant 3-6’ high, pileus 1-2’ broad, stem 2’—8” thick. 
Ground in open woods. Croghan. September. 
It is related to H. ceraceus, but besides its different color it is 
much more fragile. 
