164 SYNOPSIS OF THE FLORA OF COLORADO. 
slender, firm, fibrous, stuffed, equal, concolorous. Plant very variable, 
1-6 nee high; pileus .5-2 inches broad.—Twin-Lake Creek, August. 
G US VELUTIPES, Curt. Cvespitose; pileus fleshy, thin on the 
argin, pa smooth, very viscid, dull ye ellow with a brownish disk 
ot bright reddish- yellow ; lamellz close, fonder behind, slightly at- 
tached, yellowish; stem equal or slightly tapering upward, hollow or 
stuffed, generally velvety and brown, sometimes pale yellow and prim- 
rose. Plant 1-2 inches high; pileus 5-1.5 broad.—Twin-Lake Creek, 
August. 
AGARICUS ILLICITUS, Peck. Pileus fleshy, firm, broadly convex or 
cpio; smooth, hy grophanous, very dark brown when moist, paler 
whe amella close, broad, taperin g cuiwanlty, , plane or ventricose, 
rounded behind, with a very slight decurrent tooth, pale dingy brown ; 
stem firm, equal, hollow, scabrous, distinctly striate at the top, paler 
than the pileus. Plant 1.5-2 inches ‘high; pileus 1-1.5 inches broad.— 
Twin-Lake Creek, August. 
* AGARICUS ? Twin-Lake Creek, August. 
* LACTARIUS ? Twin-Lake Creek, August. 
LENZITES SEPIARIA, Fr. Pileus coriaceous, tough, pray often 
cyanieie pert strigose: tomentose, brown, generally paler or yellow- 
ish n; lamelle rather ao slightly eaectieg: or anas- 
tomosing, yellows inclining to bro 
Var. 8. POROSA.—Lamellie abundantly anastomosing and forming 
pores. Cie of the Holy Cross and Twin-Lake ae August. 
DACRYMYCES STILLATUS, Nees. Subrotund, convex, often plicate, 
yellow oe geen color persistent; spores initiest tite: ” White House 
ugt ie 
pact 
PEZIZA A VULCAN s, Pee oa cligdewtets nas Rep., 1872. Cup fleshy, 
funnel-form, sipitate, erenwte on the margin, smooth when fresh, rugu- 
ose and more or oe brown when dry; hymenium pale orange; stem 
slender, =, smooth, brown; asci ey lindrieal ; paraphyses slightly thick- 
ened at the tips; spores elliptical, smooth, 0.0004—0.0006 inch long, 0.0003 
inch broad. Plant, 6-10 | es high; cup 4-6 lines broad.—Ground. 
Twin-Lake Creek, Angst 
PEZIZA SCUTELLATA, L. Cups scattered or gregarious, sessile, shal- 
low or plane, vécmniition, externally paler and hispid, with straight brown 
or black a ci peledaiceh paraphyses clavate at the tips; spores 
, 0008 inch long. Plant usually about one-fourth of an inch in 
ellipti 
i the hymenium fading in drying. intake Creek; August. 
*Not in determinable condition. 
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