Supplement 



(Plate CCII.) 



in diameter or slightly tapering upward. It is glabrous or slightly 

 fibrillose, solid, whitish, or pallid, or colored like the pileus, and when 

 growing among mosses is clothed below with a soft, dense, white to- 

 mentum, which binds it so closely to the mosses that it is difficult to take 

 a specimen without breaking the stem unless the mosses are taken with it. 



It is related so closely to CantJiarcllus umbonatns that it has sometimes 

 been regarded as a variety of it or has even been confused with it, but 

 the gills of that species are described as straight, and in our plant they 

 are constantly repeatedly forked as in C. aurantiacus and C ' . albidus. 

 The umbo in our plant is small and pointed and often wholly wanting, 

 but in C. umbonatns it is represented as broad and blunt. Because of 

 these discrepancies it seems best to keep our plant distinct. 



As an edible mushroom it is not as tender as some nor as highly 

 flavored, but it is satisfactory and enjoyable. Peck. 



Entoloma graveolens Pk. Rep., 1899: 844. Pileus thick, firm but 

 brittle, convex, often irregular, glabrous, slightly flocculent on the 



margin, whitish, sometimes with 

 a violaceous tint. Flesh white, 

 taste unpleasant, odor strong, 

 disagreeable, earthy. Lamellae 

 narrow, close, adnexed, grayish 

 white, becoming pale salmon 

 color. Stem short, stout, solid, 

 thickened or bulbous at the base, 

 downy above, white, the bulb 

 usually clothed with a soft, white 

 tomentum. Spores pale salmon 

 color, elliptic, .00024 to .0003 

 of an inch long, .00016 broad, 

 commonly uninucleate. 



Pileus 2 to 4 inches broad ; 

 stem 1.5 to 4 inches long, 8 to 

 12 lines thick. Black muck soil 

 in low woods. Meadowdale, 



New York, October. 



In size and shape this mush- 

 room resembles TricJioloma personatum, and when it is tinged with a 



724 



