Leucosporee 



Taste bitter. The form on wood is somewhat horizontal, gregarious Pieurotns. 

 here and there imbricated. Stevenson. 



Spores 9-IOX4//, Massee; 8x4/u, W.G.S.; minutely globose, 3-41". 

 Peck. 



Edible. Cooke, Cordier. 



P. spatlmla'tus Pers. shaped like a spathula. PileuS rather thin, 

 1-2 in. broad, ascending, spathulate, tapering behind into the stem, 

 glabrous, convex or depressed on the disk and there sometimes pubes- 

 cent, alutaceous or brownish tinged with gray, red or yellow. Grills 

 crowded, linear, decurrent, whitish or yellowish. Stem compressed, 

 sometimes channeled above, grayish-tomentose. Spores elliptical, 7.6x 

 45^ broad; odor and taste farinaceous. 



Ground. Sandlake. June. Edible. 



It grows singly or in tufts and is an inch or more in height. The 

 margin is thin and sometimes striatulate and reflexed. Toward the 

 base the flesh is thicker than the breadth of the gills. The cuticle is 

 tough' and separable. The flesh is said by Gillet to be tender and 

 delicate. Persoon describes the disk as spongy-squamulose, but in our 

 specimens it is merely pubescent or tomentose. Peck, 39th Rep. N. Y. 

 State Dot. 



Recorded as edible by Professor Peck. At Eagle's Mere, Pa., I 

 found many specimens agreeing with this description. They grew from 

 decaying wood under ground, yet had the appearance of growing from 

 the earth. It is probable that others have been deceived. In quality 

 I found this to be one of the best. 



P. sero'tinus Fr. late. PileuS fleshy, 1-3 in. broad, compact, 

 convex or nearly plane, viscid when young and moist, dimidiate kid- 

 ney-shaped or suborbicular, solitary or cespitose and imbricated, vari- 

 ously colored, dingy-yellow, reddish-brown, greenish-brown or olivace- 

 ous, the margin at first involute. Gills close, determinate, whitish or 

 yellowish. Stem very short, lateral, thick, yellowish beneath and min- 

 utely tomentose or squamulose with blackish points. Spores minute, 

 elliptical, 5/x long, 2.5/x. broad. 



Dead trunks of deciduous trees. Peck, 39th Rep. N. Y. State Bot. 



Mt. Gretna, Pa., 1887, an d at Mt. Moriah, near Philadelphia, from 

 August until November, 1898. Upon these findings the pileus was 

 tomentose at base, as was the short stem. 

 10 145 



