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STUDIES OF AMERICAN FUNGI. 





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" Under pine trees, Westport, September." 

 What appears to be the same plant was collected by me at 



Blowing Rock, N. C, 

 under a pine tree, in 

 September, 1899 (No. 

 3979 C. U. herbari- 

 um). 



The notes taken 

 on the fresh plant are 

 as follows : 



Very viscid, with 

 a thick, tough viscid 

 cuticle, cortina or veil 

 viscid, and collapsing 

 on the stem, forming 

 coarse, walnut-brown 

 or dark vinaceous 

 reticulations, termi- 

 nating abruptly near 

 the gills, or reaching 

 them. 



The stem is white 

 underneath the slimy 

 veil covering, tough, 

 fibrous, continuous, 

 and not separable 

 from the hymeno- 

 phore, tapering below. 

 The pileus is con- 

 vex, the very thin 

 margin somewhat in- 

 curved, disk ex- 

 panded, uneven, near 

 the center cracked 

 into numerous small 

 viscid brownish are- 

 oles; pileus flesh color, 

 flesh same color ex- 

 cept toward the gills. 

 Gills dark drab gray, arcuate, distant, decurrent, many of them 

 forked, separating easily from the hymenophore, peeling off in broad 

 sheets, and leaving behind corresponding elevations of the hymeno- 



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