species of North American Fungi. 295 



Pileus ^ inch across, convex, smooth, striate, pale rufous ; 

 stem 1| inch high, not a line thick, white, minutely pulverulent- 

 tomentose, especially below ; gills white, distant, minutely 

 toothed, free, forming by their junction a little collar round the 

 top of the stem. 



95. M. viticola, B. & C. Pileo depresso subcoriaceo tenui 

 sulcato striato rufo ; stipite brevi insititio fusco pruinoso, furfu- 

 raceo ; lamellis pallidis distantibus ; interstitiis lrevibus. Curt, 

 no. 4604. On dead vine branches, Alabama, Hon. J. M. Peters. 



Pileus | of an inch broad, dry, subcoriaceous, depressed, sul- 

 cato-striate, pale rufous ; stem 1 inch high, dark brown, pul- 

 verulent ; gills distant, pale, slightly adnate, moderately broad, 

 ventricose; interstices even. 



The stems are sometimes confluent. 



96. M. pruinatus, B. & C. Pileo campanulato sulcato prui- 

 nato rugoso ; stipite setiformi nitido cinereo ; lamellis paucis, 

 interstitiis laevibus. Curt. no. 5064. On little bits of grass, 

 &c, I\ew England, C. J. Sprague. 



Pileus \ an inch across, campanulate, pale umber, pruinose, 

 minutely wrinkled ; stem 2 inches high, setiform, pale cinereous 

 or tinged with reddish brown, shining with a satiny lustre ; 

 gills ochraceous, few, distant, interstices even. A thin white 

 mycelium like a corticium spreads over the matrix. 



97. Heliomyces decolorans, B. & C. Albus, exsiccatione rufus ; 

 pileo glabro rugoso sulcato ; stipite rigido nitido ; lamellis latis 

 decurrentibus. Curt. no. 6079. On dead wood, Alabama, 

 Hon. J. M. Peters. 



Pileus 1 inch or more across, white at first as well as the gills, 

 but changing in drying to a deep tawny brown, smooth, wrin- 

 kled, sulcate ; stem 2 inches high, shining, more permanent in 

 colour, but sometimes becoming rufous ; gills broad, distant, 

 decurrent ; interstices wrinkled. 



The change of colour is exactly that which takes place in 

 Hygrophorus eburneus. 



98. Paxillus rudis, B. & C. Pileo subcuneiformi sordide fla- 

 vido tomentoso, margine inflexo ; stipite nullo ; lamellis crassi- 

 usculis obtusis postice costatis. Curt. no. 5521. On pine 

 timber of a railroad embankment, growing horizontally in the 

 crevices between the timbers, Connecticut, C. Wright. 



Pileus 2 inches or more across, tomentose, dirty yellow brown, 

 wedge-shaped when growing freely, but often attached behind 

 with a narrow reflected margin, which is strongly incurved; 

 stem none ; gills rather thick, obtuse, costate behind, ferrugi- 

 nous, not reticulate; spores dirty yellow, subelliptic, with a 

 large globose nucleus and hyaline gelatinous coat, - 4 uVu inch 

 Ions:. 



