20 Annual Report of the State Botanist. 



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 colored nearly like the pileus ; stem slender flocculose toward the 



base, white, attached to the matrix by white tomentose filaments ; 



spores elliptical, .0004 to .0005 in. long, .0003 broad. 



Pileus 6 to 10 lines broad; stem 8 to 12 lines long, .5 lines thick. 



Base of stems of Scirpus validus. Patchogue. Aug. 



Easily known by the striate margin and the white tomentum of 

 the young pileus. It belongs to the first section of the tribe Lepidoti 

 in the Friesian arrangement. 



Galera rufipes, n. sp. 



[Plate 2. Figs. 11-15.] 



Pileus campanulate or convex, hygrophanous, reddish-tawny and 

 striatulate when moist, whitened on the margin by the remains of the 

 white fibrillose veil, pale ochraceous when dry ; lamellae broad, sub- 

 distant, emarginate, yellowish or subochraceous, slightly crenulate on 

 the whitish edge; stem slender, hollow, slightly fibrillose below, 

 pruinose at the apex, reddish-brown; spores subochraceous, .00025 to 

 .0003 in. long, .00016 to .0002 broad. 



Pileus 4 to 6 lines broad; stem about 1 in. long, .5 line thick. 



Mossy ground in woods. North Elba. Sept. 



Psathyra silvatica, n. sp. 



Pileus membranous, campanulate, glabrous, viscid, hygrophanous, 

 dark-brown and striatulate when moist, grajish-brown when dry; 

 lamellae broad, ascending, subdistant, ferruginous-brown with a white 

 edge; stem slender, subflexuous, hollow, brown; spores brown, .0004 

 in. long, .00025 broad. 



Pileus 4 to 5 lines broad; stem 1 to 2 in. long, .5 line thick. 



Mossy ground in woods. North Elba. Sept. 



Cortinarius fulgens, Fr. 



Mixed woods. North Elba. Sept. 



This is a showy fungus. The specimens were wholly yellow except 

 the center of the pileus, which was marked with ferruginous or tawny 

 stains and spots. 



Cortinarius (Phlegmacium) lanatipes, n. ^. 



Pileus fleshy, broadly convex or nearly plane, viscose, grayish, often 

 tinged with yellow, becoming yellowish or subf ulvous and virgate with 

 innate tawny fibrils when old, flesh whitish ; lamellae narrow, close, 

 aduexed, pale violaceous when young ; stem equal or tapering upward, 

 solid, bulbous, subannulate, loosely fibrillose tomentose below, silky 



