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The pileus is sometimes attached by the vertex, aud the margin 

 is often beautifully crenately lobed or scalloped. 



Entoloiua cyaneum Pk. 



Decaying logs in woods. Morehouseville. July. These speci- 

 mens differ from the type in having the pileus grayish-brown and 

 the stem wholly bluish. The sjoecies approaches E. griseo-cyaneAim, 

 very closely, but diifers in the color of the pileus. It is very rare. 



Pholiota discolor Pk. 



Two forms of this species are found. One- has a scattered mode 

 of growth, the t)ther a ceespitose. The latter was found on decay- 

 ing wood of birch, Betula lutea, at Morehouseville. The species is 

 allied to P. marginata, from which it is readily distinguished by its 



viscid pileus. 



Stropharia squamosa Fr. 



Specimens collected near Salamanca agree very closely with the 

 description of this species, but they differ in having the pileus of a 

 beautiful orange-red color. In this respect, and indeed in many 

 other respects, they agree better with the description of Stropharia 

 thrausta, but disagree in having the pileus neither hygrophanous 

 nor glabrous. The jalants are generally rather slender, though 

 individuals occur having a stout stem and a pileus three or four 

 inches broad. This is viscid and beautifully adorned with whitish 

 superficial scales which are easily destroyed. The margin is often 

 appendiculate. The lamellae are broad and subdistaut, and the 

 stem is long, hollow, floccose-squamose and annulate. The whole 

 plant is fragile, but this may be due in a measure to the fact that it 

 is apt to be infested by the larvse of insects. It is probably to be 

 considered a variety of S. squamosa and is apjpareutly equivalent 

 to Agaricus tliraustus var. aurantiacus of Cooke's Illustrations, 



Boletus punctipes Pk. 



Under pine trees. Corning, Steuben county. September. This 

 species had not been observed by me since its discovery in 1878. 

 The spores when first dropped are olive green on white paper, 

 but the greenish hue soon fades or rather changes to brownish- 



ochraceous. 



Coniophora puteana Fr. 



If this species is rightly understood by me it is, as Fries says, a 

 very variable one. It varies not only in the color of the hymenium 

 but also in its character and in that of the margin. The hymenium 



