46 Annual Report of the State Botanist. 



Pileus 2 to 4 in. broad ; stem 2 to 4 iu. long, 5 to 8 lines thick. 



On or about pine stumps, rarely on hemlock trunks. Rensselaer, 

 Albany, Oneida, Lewis, Cattaraug-us and Fulton counties. July to 

 November. 



The species is somewhat variable in size and color. When old 

 the pileus sometimes becomes yellowish, variegated with purplish 

 or reddish stains. The villosity on the edge of the lamellae is not 

 always equally developed. T. variegatum of the Twenty-third 

 Report, page 74, is probably only a small form of this species 

 having the edges of the lamellae nearly naked. 



Tricholoma scalpturatum Fr. 



Scratched Tricholoma 



(Hyni. Europ., p. 55. Syl. Fung. Vol. V, p. 100. Agaricus impolitoides N. Y. State Mus. 



Rep. 32. p. 25.) 



Pileus at first conical or convex, then expanded, obtuse, dry, cov- 

 ered with tomentum which at length* forms brotvnish or reddish 

 flocGose scales, luhitish, flesh whitish; lamellae somewhat crowded, 

 emarginate, whitish, sometimes becoming yellowish when old ; stem 

 equal, solid or stuffed, fibrillose, white ; spores elliptical, .00025- 

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



Pileus 2 to 3 in. broad : stem 2 to 3 in. long, 3 to 6 lines thick. 



Woods. Saratoga county. August. 



Our plant has a farinaceous taste, about which nothing is said in 

 the description of the European plant. In other respects the 

 characters are well sustained by it. 



Tricholoma flavescens Pk. 

 Pale-yellowish Tricholoma 



(N. Y. State Mus. Rep. 26, p. 51.) 



Pileus convex, firm, often irregular, dry, slightly silky, becoming 

 glabrous, sometimes cracking into minute scales on the disk, whitish 

 or pale yelloiv, flesh whitish or yellowish ; lamellae close, white or 

 pale-yellow, emarginate, floccose on the edge; stems firm, solid, 

 often unequal, central or sometimes eccentric, single or caespitose, 

 colored like the pileus ; spores subglobose, .0002 in. in diameter. 



Pileus 2 to 3 in. broad ; stem 1 to 2.5 in. long, 4 to 6 lines thick. 



Pine stumps. Albany and Rensselaer counties. October. 



The species seems to be related to T. rutiloAis but has not the red 

 or purplish tomentum of that fungus. It, like T. decor o sum, \^ 

 always lignicolous, T. rutilans is sometimes so. 



