Report of the State Botanist. 55 



Pholiota discolor Pk. 

 Yar. minor. Small ; pileus 6 to 10 lines broad, chestnut color 

 when young or moist; stem about 1 line thick, at first clothed 

 with whitish fibrils. Among mosses about or on the base of 

 stumps. Shokan. September. 



Galera teneroides PI: 



This species is not rare in the Adirondack woods. It often 

 grows on decaying wood and branches. The color, though 

 approaching that of G. tener, is more dull or brownish both 

 when moist and when dry. The moist pileus is sometimes 

 striatulate almost to the disk. 



Agaricus silvicola VUt. 



The New York specimens heretofore referred to this species 

 differ in some respects from the European plant if we may rely 

 upon the published descriptions. The stem is quite constantly 

 abruptly bulbous at the base, and the annulus is usually double, 

 the lower or exterior one being of a floccose texture, smaller 

 and split in a radiating manner as in that of A. arvensis. 

 The very young lamellas are also whitish as in that species and 

 wounds or bruises of the flesh are apt to become yellowish, all of 

 which indicate a closer affinity in our plant to A. arvensis than 

 to A. campestei'. It seems to me, therefore, that greater scientific 

 accuracy will be attained by referring our plant to A. arvensis as 

 a var. ahrvptus.^ and considering it distinct from the Euro])ean 

 A. silvicola, which is described as having a simple annulus 

 and which is figured as having the stem slightl}'" and gradually 

 thickened at the base. The name ahrvptus will indicate the 

 character of the bulb in our plant. I have made trial of its 

 edible qualities and find it very good eating, though scarcely as 

 highly flavored as the common mushroom. 



Psilocybe squalidella Pk. 

 Yar. c(B8pitosa. Densely caispitose; pilei often irregular from 

 mutual ])ressure, firm but flexible and elastic, pale-alutaceous or 

 watery-brown when moist, ochraceous or reddish-yellow when 

 dry; stem subcartilaginous, sojiiewhat fibrous, stuffed or hollow, 

 frequently wavy, reddish-brown or rufescent, paler at the top. 



