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46 Annual Repoet of the State Botanist. 



Pileiis 2 to 4 Id. broad ; stem 2 to 4 in. long-, 5 to 8 lines thick. 



On or abont pine stumps, rarely on hemlock trunks. Rensselaer, 

 Albany, Oneida, Lewis, Cattaraug-us and Fulton counties. July to 

 November. 



The species is somewhat variable in size and color. When old 

 the pileus sometimes becomes yellowish, varieg-ated with purplish 

 or reddish stains. The villosity on the edg-e of the lamellae is not 

 always equally developed. T. va7'iegatum of the Twenty-third 

 Report, pag'e 74, is probably only a small form of this species 

 having- the edg-es of the lamellae nearly naked. 



Tricholoma scalpturatum Fr. 



Scratched Teicholoma 



(Hym. Europ., p. 55. Syl. Fung:. Vol. V, p. 100. Aijaricun impolitoides N. Y. State Mus. 



Rep. 32, p. 25.) 



Pileus at first conical or convex, then expanded, obtuse, dry, cov- 

 ered with tomentum which at length forms broionish or reddish 

 floccose scales, lohitish, flesh whitish; lamellae somewhat crowded, 

 emarg-inate, whitish, sometimes becoming- yellowish when old ; stem 

 equal, solid or stuffed, fibrillose, white ; spores elliptical, .00025- 

 .0003 in. lone: ; .00016 to .0002 broad. 



Pileus 2 to 3 in. broad ; stem 2 to 3 in. long-, 3 to 6 lines thick. 



Woods. Saratoga county. August. 



Our j)lant has a farinaceous taste, about which nothing is said in 

 the description of the European plant. In other respects the 

 characters are well sustained by it. 



Tricholoma flavescens Pk. 



Pale-yellowish Tricholoma 



(N. Y. State Mus. Rep. 26, p. 51.) 



Pileus convex, firm, often irregular, dry, slightly silky, becoming 

 glabrous, sometimes cracking into minute scales on the disk, lohitish 

 or pale yelloio, flesh whitish or yellowish ; lamellae close, white or 

 pale-yellow, emarginate, floccose on the edge; stems firm, solid, 

 often unequal, central or sometimes eccentric, single or caespitose, 

 colored like the pileus ; spores subglobose, .0002 in. in diameter. 



Pileus 2 to 3 in. broad ; stem 1 to 2.5 in. long, 4 to 6 lines thick. 



Pine stumps. Albany and Rensselaer counties. October. 



The species seems to be related to T. rutilans but has not the red 

 or puri^lish tomentum of that fimgus. It, like T. decorosum, is 

 always lignicolous, T. rutilans is sometimes so. 



