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among the polyporei and Irpex among the Hydnei. Such a blending 

 of generic characters in one species is not very assuring to our 

 present estimation of generic limits. 



Corticium cinereum Fr. var. fumigatum, Thum. 

 Dead branches of hickor}', Carya alba. Selkirk. June. 



Geoglossum vitellinum, 5res. 



Very abundant and luxuriant in mossy damp ground in the woods 

 of North Elba. It was tested for its edible quality and found to be 

 good. Its small size would ordinarily make it of but little importance 

 as an esculent fungus, but this objection to it is in great measure 

 obviated when it occurs in great profusion. It maintains the irreg- 

 ular character of the species even when growing luxuriantly. 



(E.) 



NEW YORK SPECIES. OF CLITOPILUS. 



Clitopilus, jPr. 



Stem fleshy or fibrous, diffused above into the pileus, of which the 

 margin is at first involute. Hymenophore continuous with the stem. 

 Lamallae equally attenuated behind and subdecurrent, neither sepa- 

 rating nor sinuate. 



Terrestrial, often strong smelling, the pileus more or less depressed 

 or umbilicate, the umbilicus similarly colored. 



This genus belongs to the rosy or pink-spored series, and corres- 

 ponds to Clitocybe in the white-spored series. It is separated from 

 Eccilia by its fleshy stem, and from Entoloma by its adnate or decur- 

 rent lamellse. The species are less numerous than those of Clitocybe, 

 and some are separable from that genus by a slight difference in the 

 color of the spores only. The spores of most of the species have the 

 usual flesh-colored hue of the series Hyporhodii, but in two species 

 they are more highly colored, exhibiting a rosy-red hue, while in a 

 few species they are very pale, barely tinted with flesh color when 

 caught on white paper. If caught on black or brown paper they 

 appear sordid or whitish, and the species might then be sought in the 

 genus Clitocybe. The spores of different species vary also in size and 

 shape, thus furnishing important specific characters. Some of the 

 species are et\ible, others are bitter and unpleasant in flavor. A fari- 

 naceous odor is observable in several species, and this is sometimes 

 accompanied by a bitter taste. Most authors follow Fries in the 



