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‘Plant cxspitose; pileus 1 to 1.5 in. broad; stem 1 to 2 in. long, 1 to 
2 lines thick. 
A single tuft of this peculiar species was found growing at the base 
of an apple tree in the Catskill mountains, in September. The species 
is remarkable for the copious bright colored spores which were so 
thickly dusted over the pilei of the lower specimens as to conceal the 
real color of the surface. They are quite as bright as and a little 
longer than those of the preceding species. The general aspect of the 
plant with its dark colored lamelle is suggestive of some species of 
Hypholoma or Psilocybe, but the color of the spores requires its inser- 
tion in this place. 
Clitopilus czespitosus n. sp. 
Pileus at first convex, firm, nearly regular, shining white, then 
nearly plain, fragile, often irregular or eccentric from its tufted mode 
of growth, glabrous but with a slight silky luster, whitish, flesh white, 
taste mild; lamella narrow, thin, crowded, often forked, adnate or 
slightly decurrent, whitish, becoming dingy or brownish-incarnate; 
stem cespitose, solid, silky-fibrillose, slightly mealy at the top, white; 
spores very pale incarnate, .0002 in. long, .00016 broad. 
Pileus 2 to 4 in. broad; stem 1.5 to 3 in, long, 2 to 4 lines thick. 
Thin woods and pastures. Catskill mountains. September. 
This is a large, fine species, very distinct in its czespitose habit, white 
color and very pale, sordid tinted spores. But for the color of these 
the plant might easily be taken for a species of Clitocybe. The tufts 
sometimes form long rows. 
Pholiota minima, n. sp. 
Pileus membranous, hemispherical or campanulate, umbonate, 
glabrous, hygrophanous, brown and. striatulate when moist, pale 
buff or yellowish-white when dry; lamellz rather close, subventricose, 
adnexed, ferruginous; stem slender, solid, glabrous, shining, similar 
to the pileus in color, annulus near the middle, slight, evanescent; 
spores elliptical, .0003 in. long, .0002 broad. 
Pileus 2 to 4 lines broad; stem 8 to 12 lines long, .5 line thick. 
Among Polytrichum. Catskill mountains. September. 
The species is distinguished from P. mycenoides, to which it 1s 
closely related, by its smaller size, paler color, umbonate pileus and | 
solid stem. 
ae Inocybe fibrillosa, n. sp. 
- -Pileus thin, convex or nearly plain, obtuse or subumbonate, densely 
- fibrillose, tawny, the disk usually darker in color and adorned with 
- appressed fibrillose scales; lamell close, adnate, at first yellowish or 
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