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(Plate CCXV.) 



tint, the central part adorned with many minute slightly darker areolate 

 spots or dots. Flesh whitish, taste mild. Tubes small, adnate or 

 depressed about the stem, ventricose 

 in the mass, the mouths subrotund, 

 at first whitish, becoming greenish yel- 

 low. Stem equal or tapering upward, 

 pallid, solid, fibrose striate. Spores 

 dark olive green, oblong, .00045 to 

 .0006 of an inch long, .00016 to .0002 

 broad. 



Pileus 3 to 4 inches broad ; stem 3 to 

 5 inches long, 4 to 8 lines thick. 



In woods. Bolton, New York. August. 



This species belongs to the section 

 Edules. It was not found in sufficient 

 quantity for testing its edibility, but it 

 is probably edible. Peck. **&& y 9na t 



Scleroderma verrucosum maculatum Pk. Rep., 1899: 848. Sub- 

 sessile, globose or depressed globose, I to 3 inches broad. Peridium 

 thick, firm, brown, adorned with minute, thin, dark brown squamules 



which often fall from the upper part, 

 leaving it dotted with small, round, pale 

 or yellowish spots. Spores blackish in 

 the mass, globose, warted, .0006 to 

 .0007 of an inch broad. Tramal walls 

 yellowish brown. 



Mucky soil in woods. Rosendale, 

 New York. September. 



The specimens found were too old to 

 show the interior color of the young 

 plant, and not old enough to show the 

 manner in which the peridium ruptures. 

 The general color of the peridium is 

 Vandyke brown, and the scales are so 

 minute that at first sight it appears to be 

 smooth. On close inspection it is seen to be abundantly dotted with 

 minute flattened scales, which are so loosely attached that they are apt 

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(Plate CCXVI.) 



