32 BULLETIN N. ¥. STATE MUSEUM. 
white ; lamelle close, rather broad, adnate or slightly decurrent, 
somewhat branched and anastomosing at the base, pale creamy-yellow, 
the interspaces venose ; stem firm, stout, solid, eccentric or lateral, 
rarely central, densely tomentose-hairy, dark-brown ; spores elliptical, 
.0002 to .00025 in. long, .00016 in. broad. 
Plant single or cespitose, 3 to 6 in. high, pileus 3 to 6 in. broad, 
stem 6 to 15 lines thick. 
Ground and much decayed wood of pine and hemlock. Helder- 
berg mountains, Sandlake and Gansevoort. August. 
This is a large species, easily recognized by the dark-brown coarsely 
velvety or densely hairy coat of the stem, which character is suggest- 
ive of the specific name. It sometimes grows in large tufts, and then 
the pileus is frequently irregular by reason of mutual compression. 
In wet weather the pileus is moist and sometimes obscurely mottled 
with dark spots. Occasionally it emits an unpleasant, dirt-like odor. 
Paxillus panuoides #7. 
Panus-like Paxillus. Stemless Paxillus. Pale Paxillus, 
Pileus fleshy, thin, convex or nearly plane, sessz/e or resupinate, 
sometimes narrowed behind into a short stem-like base, pubescent or 
glabrous, yellowish or brownish-yellow ; lamelle narrow, close, an- 
astomosing and crisped at the base, yellow ; spores subglobose or - 
broadly elliptical, .00018 to .0002 in. long, .00013 to .00016 in. 
broad. 
Pileus 1 to 2 in. broad and long. 
Decaying wood, usually of pine and hemlock. Albany, Maryland 
and Adirondack mountains. August and September. 
This is our only sessile species. It grows in open places as well as 
in woods. It is quite variable in Europe, according to the description 
in Hymenomycetes Europei. A form with a whitish pileus (Agaricus 
lamellirugis Dec. F1., Merulius crispus Turpin) is the variety B of 
Fries. A form with aresupinate cup-like pileus, variety pezzoddes, 
is his variety C, and Gomphus pezizoides Pers. The Handbook also 
describes a form with a white pileus tinged with violet. Of these, 
only the var. pezézo¢des has been found here. It occurs in the Adi- 
rondack mountain region, 
Paxillus porosus Berk. 
Porous Paxillus. 
Pileus fleshy, broadly convex or expanded, often irregular or sub- 
reniform, dry, glabrous or minutely tomentose, reddish-brown, some- 
