22 NEW YORK STATE MUSEUlM 



easily separates from the slightly bulbous base of the stem and 

 adheres to the soil that surrounds it. Both it and the annulus 

 are of a beautiful, chrome yellow color. 



Tricholoma radicatum n. sp. 



PLATE 82, FIG. 15-19 



Pileus fleshy, firm, umbraculiform or broadly convex, dry, 

 minutely silky fibrillose or obscurely fibrillose squamulose, some- 

 what shining, pale grayish brown, the center usually darker and 

 often tinged with reddish brown, the margin thin, cuticle sepa- 

 rable, flesh white, taste disagreeable; lamellae thin, close, 

 emarginate, adnexed, having a decurrent tooth, white; stem flrm, 

 nearly equal, hollow with a small cavity, slightly fibrillose, dis- 

 tinctly radicating, white; spores broadly elliptic, .0002-.00024 

 of an inch long, .00016-.0002 broad. 



Pileus 2—3 inches broad; stem 1.5-4 inches long, 3-5 lines 

 thick. Under coniferous trees. North Elba. September. 



This mushroom loses its unpleasant flavor in cooking and is 

 edible. A more full and popular description is given in another 

 part of the report. 



Clitocybe inversa (Scop.) Fr. 



Pine groves. Near Northville, Fulton co. August. A stout 

 form with a thick stem. 



Mycena rugosoides n. sp. 



PLATE M, FIG. 17-H4 



Pileus fleshy but thin, campanulate, usually broadly umbon- 

 ate, glabrous, hygrophanous, even but striate on the margin when 

 moist, paler and uneven when dry, with close irregular radiating 

 rugae, variable in color; lamellae subdistant, rounded or emargi 

 nate next the stem, adnexed, whitish or smoky white; stem long, 

 even, glabrous, hollow, radicating, villose tomentose at the base, 

 white or pallid, often tinged with reddish brown at the base; 

 spores elliptic, .0003 of an inch long, .0002 broad, granular. 



Pileus 6-12 lines broad; stem 1.5-3 inches long, .5-1.5 lines 

 thick. Gregarious on much decayed, mossy, prostrate trunks of 

 coniferous trees. North Elba. September. 



Three forms occur which are separable by color. One is wholly 

 white, another has the pileus and stem cinereous or grayish 



