REPORT OF THE STATE BOTANIST I9IO 5 1 



Pileus 5-12 cm broad; stem 10-15 cm long, 12-24 i^im thick. 



Ground in woods. Old Lyme, Connecticut. August. H. L. 

 Wells. 



This is a fine large species with a 'beautifully colored stem, the 

 upper half usually bright yellow, the lower half white. The two 

 colors sometimes blend into each other and sometimes are quite 

 definitely terminated. They grow scattered but sometimes two with 

 stems united at the base. The pileus is apt to be badly infested by 

 insect larvae. Ihis species may well commemorate Miss Gertrude 

 Wells who, though young in years, has already manifested a re- 

 markable interest in mushrooms and a wonderful proficiency in the 

 knowledge of them. 



Pileus carneus, late convexus, glaber, mollis, siccus, aurantiaco- 

 luteus vel brunneo-luteus, rare flavidus, carne alba, immutabile; 

 tubuli longi, primus fiavidi, deinde fulvo-ochraecei, adnati vel cir- 

 cum stipitem leviter depressi, pori minuti ; stipes longus, subaequa- 

 lis, solidus, glaber, supra flavidus, infra albus, carne intra alba, vel 

 supra flavida; sporae oblongae vel fusiformes, 15-20x5-6/-/-. 



Cercospora verbenae-strictae 



Spots numerous, small, angular, yellowish green ; hyphae hypo- 

 phyllous, tufted, short, simple, slightly colored, 20-40 ij. long, 4-5 fi 

 broad ; spores slender, commonly tapering upward, obscurely 3-6- 

 septate, hyaline. 20-100 ij- long, 3-4 u. broad. 



Lower surface of living or languishing leaves of Verbena 

 s t r i c t a Vent. Stockton, Kansas. August. E. Bartholomew 

 and W. T. Swingle. 



Maculae numerosae, parvae, angulares, luteo-virides ; hyphae 

 hypophyllae, caespitosae, breves, simplices, leviter coloratae, 20-40 

 X 4-5 /^ ; sporae graciles, vulgo sursum attenuatae, obscure 3-6- 

 septatae, hyalinae, 20-100 x 3-4 /-/. 



Clitocybe subnigricans 

 Pileus fleshy in the center, thin toward the margin, convex be- 

 coming nearly plane, glabrous, whitish or smoky white, flesh 

 whitish, slowly changing to grayish on exposure to the air. taste 

 slightly and tardily acrid, odor earthy, slightly pungent and dis- 

 agreeable, persistent, lamellae thin, narrow, close, slightly or in 

 some specimens very much decurrent, whitish becoming blackish 

 where bruised and in drying ; stem solid, slightly fibrous striate, 

 somewhat thickened or distinctly bulbous at the base, colored like 



