Report of the Botanist. 10.) 



attached to a collar formed of the dilated apex of the stipe, 

 grayish, then black ; stipe slender, hollow, smooth, white. 



Height l'-2', breadth of pileus 6"-9". 



Rich ground. " Albany. June. 



COPEIXUS EPIIEMEKUS Ft. 



Pileus very thin and delicate, ovate-campanulate, at length 

 expanded with the margin recurved and sj)lit, distantly sul- 

 cate-striate, cinereous, the disk smooth, elevated, reddish ; 

 lamella3 distant, very narrow, attached, grayish, then black, 

 stipe very slender, fragile, white, hollow ; plant sometimes 

 csespitose. 



Height l'-1.5', breadth of pileus 4"- 6". 



Dung heaps. Albany and Sandlake. June and July. 



Genus — CORTINARIUS Fr. 



Gills membranaceous, persistent; trama floccose. Veil con- 

 sisting of arachnoid threads. Spores rusty-ochre. — Berk. 

 Outl. 



A large and difficult genus, containing many closely related 

 species, varying in color and differing in size, according to 

 conditions of weather and locality. The color of the spores 

 is reddish-ochre, sometimes ochraceous, and the veil is composed 

 of fine filaments, which may generally be seen in the young 

 expanding plant, stretching from the stipe to the margin of the 

 pileus. The prevailing color of these plants is some shade of 

 yellow or ochre, and the emarginate lamellae at length become 

 cinnamon-color. Most of the species grow in woods and shaded 

 places. 



Subgenus — Phlegmacium. 

 Pellicle of pileus viscid when moist. Veil, and consequently 



the stem from which it springs, dry. — Berk. Outl. 

 The viscid pileus and dry stem are the marks of this subgenus, 

 but it should be borne in mind that a viscid pileus when old or 

 drj' ceases to be viscid. 



Synopsis of the Species. 



Stem bulbous, lamellae pallid 1. 



Stem bulbous, lamellte yellow 2. 



Stem not bulbous nor annulate 3. 



Stem not bulbous, annulate 4. 



1. COKTIXAKIUS COLORATUS 11. SJp. 



Pileus fleshy, broadly convex or expanded, smooth, bright 

 reddish-yellow ; lamellae thin, deeply emarginate, eroded on 

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