44 AmxuAL Report of the State Botanist. 



Thin woods. Rensselaer, Cattarang-ns and Steuben counties and 

 Catskill mountains. Aug-ust and September. 



This is a beautiful species, but it does not retain its colors well in 

 drying-. It is somewhat similar in appearance to the preceding 

 species, but it is easily distinguished from all the related ones bj'^ 

 its squamulose pileus and stem. As in the allied species, its 

 lamellse become discolored or spotted with age. It is perhaps 

 edible, but I have not yet had an opportunity to test it, and the 

 taste, thoug-h at first farinaceous and pleasant, is sometimes followed 

 by a bitterish unpleasant flavor. In wet weather the margin of the 

 pileus and upper part of the stem are sometimes studded with drops 

 of moisture of a reddish or orange color. 



Genuina 



Pileus neither moist nor viscid, g-enerally floccose-squamose or 

 fibrillose, flesh soft, not hygrophanous, the margin at first involute 

 and subtomentose. 



The species of this tribe as well as those of the preceding one may 

 be arranged in two groups depending- on the character of the 

 lamellse. In one the color of the lamellae is unchangeable in the 

 other it changes with age.- Some of the species have a slig-ht fari- 

 naceous odor, at least when broken, others are inodorous. In most 

 of them the pileus is adorned with squamules or fibrils. 



Lamellae neither changing color nor becommg- spotted 1 



Lamellae chang-ing- color or becoming- spotted C 



1. Pileus white, taste not farinaceous Columbetta. 



1. Pileus white, squamulose, taste farinaceous grando. 



1. Pileus not pure white 2 



2. Lamellae yellow rutilans. 



2. Lamellae not clearly yellow 3 



3. Lamellae transversely striate striatifolium. 



3. Lamellae not transversely striate 4 



4. Pileus glabrous flavescens. 



4. Pileus not glalDrous 5 



5. Stem squamose, tawny or ochraceous decorosum. 



5. Stem fibrillose, white scalpturatum. 



6. Pileus with reddish brown or tan colored hues 7 



6. Pileus some other color 9 



7. Stem subbulbous, white , tricolor. 



7. Stem equal or nearly so, not white 8 



8. Stem solid imbricatum. 



8. Stem hollow vaccinum. 



