38 NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 
Hendersonia diplodioides divergens var. nov. 
Spores very large, irregular, straight or curved, oblong, sub- 
pyriform or elliptic, I—5-septate, commonly 3-5-septate, .co12— 
0016 of an inch long, .c005—.00096 broad. 
Dead stems of Sambucus. Red Butte Canyon, Utah. July. 
A. O. Garrett. : 
Differs from the type chiefly in its spores. 
Sporae maximae, irregulares, rectae vel curvae, oblongae, sub- 
pyriformes, vel ellipsoideae, 1I—5-septatae, plerumque 3-septatae, 
30-40 x 12-24 B. 
EDIBLE FUNGI 
Tricholoma sordidum (Schum.) Fr. 
SORDID TRICHOLOMA 
: PLATE 115 
Pileus thin, campanulate or convex becoming plane or centrally 
depressed, subumbonate, glabrous, sometimes wavy or irregular on 
the margin, hygrophanous, dark brown or subviolaceous when 
moist, pallid or subalutaceous when dry, flesh white, taste sweetish, 
then disagreeable; lamellae thin, Subdistant, sinuate, adnate or 
subdecurrent, violaceous when ycung, then whitish or smoky 
brownish, sometimes tinged with pink; stem equal or slightly 
thickened at the base, stuffed or occasionally hollow in large 
specimens, colored like or a little paler than the pileus, sometimes 
fibrillose striate; spores pinkish, .0003 of an inch long, .o002 
broad. 
The sordid tricholoma in this part of our country is most often . 
found in greenhouses. The figures of it in plate 115 were drawn 
from specimens collected by H: W. Barratt in Poughkeepsie. 
They were found growing in a greenhouse devoted to the culti- 
vation of violets. Specimens of it were received a little later from 
B. C. Williams oi Newark, Wayne co. These were collected in a 
greenhouse devoted to the cuitivation of carnations. The species 
is related to the naked tricholoma, Tricholoma nudum 
(Bull.) Fr. with which it was for a time confused, but from 
which it may be distinguished by its tougher hygrophanous cap. 
In Europe it is said to grow on manure and in rich cultivated soil 
in gardens. 
The cap is thin except in the center where it sometimes has a 
prominence called an umbo. It has a moist appearance and a 
