Ochrosporse 



PH/EOTI (Gr. dusky). Page 296. 



Pileus smooth. Gills and spores dusky rust-color. Veil rarely mani- Naucoria. 

 fest. 



LEPIDOTI (lepis, a scale). 



Pileus flocculose or squamulose. Veil manifest. 

 None known to be edible. 



I. GYMNO'TI. 



N. hama'dryas Fr. Gr., a nymph attached to her tree. Pileus 

 1^-2 in. broad, bay-brown-ferruginous when young and moist, pale 

 yellowish when old and becoming pale, slightly fleshy, convex then ex- 

 panded, gibbous, even, smooth. Stem 2-3 in. long, 3 lines thick, 

 soiueivhat fragile, hollow, equal, naked, smooth, pallid. Gills attenu- 

 ato-adnexed, somewhat free, slightly ventricose, almost 2 lines broad, 

 crowded, rust-color, opaque. Veil none. Widely removed from neigh- 

 boring species. Pileus somewhat separate as in Plutei. Fries. 



Spores elliptical, rust-color, 13-14x7^ Massee. 



Haddonfield, N. J. Frequent. Solitary. On ground along pave- 

 ments, under trees, in woods. Spring to autumn. Mcllvaine. 



Massee gives it as hygrophanous. I have not found it so. It is 

 moist after rain and dew. 



The caps and upper part of the stem are tender, easily cooked and of 

 good flavor. 



N. cero'des Fr. Gr. wax. Pileus K-i in. broad, watery cinna- 

 mon when moist, tan-color when dry, somewhat membranaceous, con- 

 vex bell-shape and flattened, at length depressed, obtuse, when moist 

 smooth, pellucid-striate at the circumference, when dry even, slightly 

 silky-atomate . Stem 2-3 in. long, 1-2 lines thick, slightly firm, tubed, 

 equal, somewhat flexuous, fibrilloso-striate under a lens, becoming dingy 

 bqy-brown sometimes for the most part, sometimes only at the base, 

 pallid upward, mealy at the apex. Gills adnate, separating, very broad 

 behind, hence almost triangular, somewhat distant, broad, plane, soft, 

 distinct, pallid then cinnamon very finely fimbriated at the edge under 

 a lens. Fries. 



The typical form, growing among damp mosses, is quite early, gre- 

 garious, with the colors almost those of Galera hypnorum, but other- 



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