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labrous, solid, whitish or tinged with the color of the pileus ; spores 

 subglobose, nodulose, 8-12 fi in diameter, cystidia 40-70 x 12-20 p.. 



Pileus 2-3 cm broad; stem 3-6 cm long, 2-3 mm thick. 



Ground in woods. Fulton and Rensselaer counties. June and 

 July. 



It bears some resemblance to Inocybe rimosa (Bull.) Fr. 

 but from that species it is at once separated by its nodulose sub- 

 globose spores. A form with brown cap and prominent umbo was 

 formerly confused with Inocybe umboninota Pk. from 

 which it is also best separated by its spores. 



Velutinae 



Cuticle of the pileus not cracking, covered with interwoven fibrils, 

 becoming smooth or appressedly squamose, disk even ; stem polished, 

 smooth, whitish, mealy at the top. 



KEY TO THE SPECIES 



Spores even 1 



Spores slightly nodulose 5 



Spores distinctly nodulose 7 



1 Pileus white or whitish, rarely lilac tinted , 2 



1 Pileus some other color 3 



2 Pileus 2-8 mm broad comatella 



2 Pileus 1-2.5 cm broad geophylla 



2 Pileus 2.5-7 cm broad , serotina 



.3 Pileus pale ochraceous subochracea 



3 Pileus pale tawny or brownish tawny 4 



4 Pileus pale tawny, umbonate agglutinata 



4 Pileus brownish tawny, obtuse subtomentosa 



5 Pileus 2.5-5 cm broad fallax 



5 Pileus less than 2.5 cm broad 6 



6 Pileus whitish or pallid 1-2 cm broad paludinella 



6 Pileus chestnut or subochraceous, 6-10 mm broad subexilis 



7 Pileus blackish brown with a grayish margin when moist, 



cinereous when dry nigridisca 



7 Pileus whitish, often with a reddish brown umbo infida 



Inocybe comatella Pk. 



HAIRY CAP IXOCYBE 



X. Y. State Mus. Rep't 38, P-8/, pl.2, fig. 5-8 



Pileus very thin, convex or expanded, clothed with whitish or 



grayish hairs, fimbriate on the margin; lamellae subdistant, adnexed, 



cinnamon ; stem equal, solid, flexuous, pallid or reddish brown, 



slightly mealy at the top, slightly flocculose pruinose, with a 



