36 Thirty-first Report on the State Museum. 



Cortinarius (Phlegmacium) lapldophilus Pk. 



Pileus at first hemispherical and cinereous, then convex or expanded and 

 tinged with ochre, often crowded and irregular, virgate with appressed fibrils ; 

 lamellae crowded, at first dark violaceous then argillaceous-cinnamon ; stem 

 solid, equal or slightly thickened at the base, whitish ; flesh of the pileus 

 whitish; spores unequally elliptical, rough, .0003' long, .00025' broad. 



Plant subcaespitose, 2-4' high, pileus 2-3' broad, stem 3 "-5" thick. 



Rocky soil in woods. Ticonderoga. Aug. 



Marasmius calopus Ft. 



Twigs and stems among fallen leaves in woods. Ticonderoga. Aug. 



This might easily be mistaken for M. scorodonius, but it is without odor, 

 and has a different insertion of the lamellae. It is sometimes caespitose. 

 The pileus in our specimens is whitish. 



Boletus Satanus Lenz. 



Borders of woods in grassy ground. Ticonderoga. Aug. 



POLTPORUS PALLIDUS /Schulz. 



Adirondack Mountains. Aug. 



Polyporus (Merisma) Beatiei Banning in litt. 



Pilei few, springing from a common, often tuber-like base, spreading out 

 into a suborbicular mass often a foot or more in diameter, nearly plane above 

 or centrally depressed and imperfectly funnel-shaped, variously confluent and 

 imbricated, sometimes single, subzonate, rough with little radiating elevations 

 or wrinkles, which sometimes form imperfect reticulations towards the base, 

 subpulverulent and strigose-villose in zones or almost evenly scabrous-villose, 

 alutaceous, the margin often irregular and lobed ; pores of medium size, 

 decurrent on the stem-like base, unequal, angular, lacerated, toothed and 

 even lamellated, generally about equal in length to the thickness of the flesh 

 of the pileus, subconcolorous ; flesh pallid or pale alutaceous, of a firm, but 

 cheesy texture ; spores globose, rough, .00025 -.0003' in diameter, colorless. 

 " Ground " in woods. Wilmurt, Herkimer County. G. /S. Watkins and 

 W. D. Edmonds. 



Ground under an oak tree. Brighton, Monroe County. G. T. Fish. 



Both gentlemen from whom I have received specimens of this fungus, speak 

 of it as growing on the ground, but it is quite probable that it starts from some 

 decaying wood or tree root buried in the earth. I have also received a speci- 

 men of this plant from Miss M. E. Banning, of Baltimore, Md., who sent it 

 under the name here given. 



The species seems closely related to P. subgiganteus B & C, but as I am 

 unable, from the description of that species, to satisfy myself that our plants 

 belong to it, I have thought best to describe them under another name. The 

 Baltimore plant has a single pileus seven inches in diameter and four inches 

 high. The New York specimens are compound, the one from Wilmurt being 

 ten inches broad and nine inches high, the one from Brighton, fifteen inches 

 broad and six inches high. These are the dimensions of the shrunken, dried 

 plants. When fresh, they were very much larger. The dimensions of the 

 Wilmurt plant, when fresh, were given me by Mr. Edmonds, as follows : 



