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which I have separated it because of its smooth and shining (not 

 ftocculose and opaque), pileus and its farinaceous taste. It was 

 disco veredlin 1884, growing,in company with Entoloma rhodopolium 

 in such a way that it was taken to be a variety of it, and it was 

 referred to that species under the name var. umbilicatum. This 

 year it was found plentifully in the same locality, but entirely 

 unaccompanied by E. rliodojpolium. A more careful study of it 

 leads me to the conclusion that it is a distinct species. 



HEBELOMA GLUTINOSUM, Lind. 



Among fallen leaves and on half buried decaying wood, in thin 



woods. Conklingville. September. 



In wet weather the gluten is sufficiently copious to drip from the 



pileus. 



CORTINARIUS SUBFERRUGINEUS, Fr. 



Thin woods. Conklingville. September. 



POLYPORUS DRYOPHILUS, Berk. 



At the base of oak trees. Conklingville. July. 



POLYPORUS SINUOSUS, Fr. 



Decaying wood of maple, Acer saccharinum. Forestburgh, 

 Sullivan county. September. The species is remarkable for and 

 easily known by its sweet and agreeable fragrance, which has been 

 likened to that of licorice. 



POLYPORUS RADICULOSUS, N. sp. 



Resupinate, effused, thin, soft, tender, orange-yellow, the 



mycelum creeping in and over the wood, silky-tomentose, at first 



white, then yellow, forming numerous yellow branching root-like 



strings or ribs which are more or less connected by a soft, silky 

 tomentum ; pores rather large, angular, at first shallow, sunk in 



the mycelium, the dissepiments becoming more elevated, thin and 



fragile ; spores elliptical, .0002 to .00025 inch long, .00012 to .00016 



broad. 



Half buried chips ot poplar. 'Populus tremuloides. Gansevoort. 

 September. 



The species is allied to P. Vaillantii, in its peculiar rhizomor- 

 phoid strings of mycelium, but from this it differs decidedly in its 

 color and texture. In these respects it approaches P. bombyeinus, 

 of which it may possibly be a peculiar variety. It is very 



