Report of the State Botanist. 61 



stem hollow, fragile, fibrillose, mealy at the top, white; spores 

 elliptical, ferruginous, .0004 to .0005 in. long, .0002 to .00025 

 broad. 



Pileus 1 to 2 in. broad; stem 1 to 2 in. long, 1 to 2 lines thick. 



Decaying wood. Cattaraugus count}'-. September. 



The specimens which I have referred to this species appear to 

 be a small form with the pileus scarcely more than an inch broad 

 and merely rugose on the disk, not distinctly reticulate as in the 

 type. In the dried specimens the pileus has assumed a dark 

 violaceous color. The dimensions of the spores have been taken 

 from the American plant. 1 do not find them given by any 

 European author. 



NEW YORK SPECIES OF (lALERA. 

 Galera Fr. 



Veil none or tibrillose. Stem subcartilaginous, continuous with 

 the hymenophorum, tubular. Pileus more or less membranaceous, 

 conical or oval, then expanded, striate, the margin at first straight 

 and appressed to the stem. Lamellas not decurrent. Hym. 

 Eiiroj).^ p. 266. 



The species of this genus are small and mostly rather fragile. 

 The pileus is thin and when young is conical, oval or bell-shaped, 

 but in some at least, it becomes expanded with age. When young 

 or moist it has a watery, or hygrophanous appearance, and is 

 then either striate or striatulate because of its thinness. The 

 colors are either whitish, yellow, ochraceous, cinnamon or ferru- 

 ginous in nearly all of our species, but owing to the hygrophanous 

 character these generally become paler in the dry plant. The 

 lamelhu are commonly yellowish, tawny, cinnamon or ferruginous. 

 The stem is slender, often straight, fragile and hollow and colored 

 like the pileus. The genus holds the same place in the ochra- 

 ceous-spored series that Mycena holds in the white-spored series 

 and Nolan ea in the pink-spored series. Some grow on dung or 

 in rich grassy, ground, others are found in woods, either on naked 

 soil or on decaying leaves, wood or branches and others still 

 occur habitually in wet or damp places among Sphagnum or other 

 mosses. 



