Agaric aceae 



Paxiiius. crowded, iK line broad, white. Stem 3-4 in. long, K in. thick at the 

 apex, attenuated downward, white, fibrillose, stuffed then hollow, usu- 

 ally rather flexuous. Flesh nearly white. Spores globose, 3-3.5/4 

 diameter, nearly white. 



In woods. Usually in small clusters. Closely allied to Paxiiius revo- 

 lutus, but distinguished by the absence of any tinge of violet on the 

 pileus or stem, and by the persistently white gills. Massee. 



Received from Katherine A. Hall, Danville, N. Y. October, 1898. 



Raw it tastes like a drug-store smell. Edible, pleasant. 



TAPI'NIA. 



(Plate XC.) 



P. involu'tllS (Batsch) Fr. involutus, rolled inward. Pileus 2-5 



in. broad, fleshy, compact, con- 

 vexo-plane then depressed , smooth , 

 viscid when moist, shining when 

 dry, yellowish or tawny-ochrace- 

 ous, strongly involute, margin 

 densely downy, flesh pallid. Stem 

 2-4 in. high, about '2 in. thick, 

 solid, firm, paler than the pileus, 

 central or eccentric. Gills 2-3 

 lines broad, crowded, branched, 

 anastomosing, forming pores be- 

 hind, whitish then yellowish or 

 rusty, spotting when bniised, 



Spores rust-color, ellipsoid or 

 oblong-ellipsoid 8-i6x6/n K.; 5x 

 6/i W. G. S. Elliptical, 8-io/ 

 Peck. 



It grows singly or in groups and likes damp mossy soil. Common 

 in cool hemlock or spruce woods in the Adirondack mountains ; not 

 rare in the mixed woods of all our hilly districts. When growing on 

 decayed stumps the stem is sometimes eccentric. August, November. 

 C. H. Peck. 



In open woods near Haddonfield, N. J., it grows to a large size and 

 in quantity. In Angora woods near Philadelphia a complete ring of it 

 20 ft. in diameter was seen. 



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PAXILLUS INVOLUTUS. 

 One-half natural size. 



