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lake), the disk a little darker, margin even ; lamellse rather close, 

 reaching the stem, some of them forked, venose-connected, white, 

 then yellowish, stem equal, solid, colored like the pileus except the 

 extremities which are usually white ; spores globose, nearly smooth, 

 ■g^-g-' in diameter; flesh of the pileus white, red under the cuticle, 

 taste mild. 



Plant 2' high, pileus 1.5'-2' broad, stem 3"-6" thick. Dry 

 ground in woods. Catskill mountains. July. 



The minute colored granules, which give the pileus a soft prui- 

 nose appearance, are easily rubbed off on paper, and water put 

 upon the fresh specimens is colored by them. 



RUSSULA SIMILLIMUS U. SJ). 



Pileus hemispherical or convex, then expanded, slightly depressed, 

 at first or when moist viscid, the margin at length tuberculate- 

 striate, pale ochraceous yellow, the disk usually a little brighter 

 colored ; lamellae subequal, reaching the stem, some of them forked 

 behind, venose-connected, yellowish from the first; stem equal or 

 slightly tapering upward, spongy within, rarely hollow, colored 

 like the pileus, sometimes a little paler ; spores -g-oW ^'^ diameter ; 

 taste acrid. 



Plant 2'-4:' high, pileus I'-S' broad, stem 4"-9" thick. Ground 

 in woods. Greig. September. 



Allied very closely to It. foBtens, from which it differs by the 

 absence of any marked odor and the margin not so widely striate. 

 I have never seen it caespitose nor growing in cleared lands. 



Paxillus mvoLUTus Batsch. 



Ground in woods. Greig and J^orth Elba. August and Sep- 

 tember. 



CA]STHARELLrS CINEREUS I^7\ 



Ground in woods and shaded ravines. Albany Rural Cemetery 

 and Greig. July, September. The form growing in the latter 

 locality is nearly black. 



Plicatura nov. gen. 



JIyme7iopho7ncm descending into the trama. Tlyriieniunfi con- 

 tinuous^ plicceform j folds irregular or wavy., edge oltuse. 



Plants of a firm coriaceous texture, reviving on the application 

 of moisture. 



This genus is related, by the obtuse edge of the folds, to Cantha- 

 rellus on one hand, and by its texture and continuous hymenium 

 to Marasmius on the other. From Xerotus it is separated by the 

 irregular character of the folds. The only species at present 

 known to me in this genus is the epiphytal species here described, 



