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which I have separated it because of its smooth and shining (not 
flocculose and opaque), pileus and its farinaceous taste. It was 
discoveredlin 1884, growing,in company with Lntoloma rhodopolium 
in such a way that it was taken to be a variety of it, and it was 
reterred to that species under the name var. wmbilicatum. This 
year it was found plentifully in the same locality, but entirely 
unaccompanied by /. rhodopolium. A more careful study of it 
leads me to the conclusion that it is a distinct species. 
HEBELOMA GLUTINOSUM, Lind. 
Among fallen leaves and on half buried decaying wood, in thin 
woods. Conklingville. September. 
In wet weather the gluten is sufficiently copious to drip from the 
pileus. 
CORTINARIUS SUBFERRUGINEUS, Fr. 
Thin woods. Conkiingville. September. 
POLYPORUS DRYOPHILUS, Berk. 
At the base of oak trees. Conklingville. July. 
POLYPORUS SINUOSUS, Fr. 
Decaying wood of maple, Acer saccharimum.  Forestburgh, 
Sullivan county. September. The species is remarkable for and 
easily known by its sweet and agreeable fragrance, which has been 
likened to that of licorice. 
POLYPORUS RADICULOSUS, N. sp. 
Resupinate, effused, thin, soft, tender, orange-yellow, the 
mycelum creeping in and over the wood, silky-tomentose, at first 
white, then yellow, forming numerous yellow branching root-like 
strings or ribs which are more or less connected by a soft, silky 
tomentum ; pores rather large, angular, at first shallow, sunk in 
the mycelium, the dissepiments Beceeee more elevated, thin and 
tragile ; spores elliptical, .0002 to .00025 inch long, .00012 to .00016 
broad. 
Half buried chips of poplar. ‘Populus tremuloides. Gansevoort. 
September. 
The species is allied to P. Vazllantiz, in its peculiar rhizomor- 
phoid strings of mycelium, but from this it differs decidedly in its 
color and texture. In these respects it approaches P. bombycinus, 
of which it may possibly be a peculiar variety. It is very 
