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The specimens which 1 have referred to this species were 

 collected many years ago. I have not found any like them since. 

 They differ from Galera tener chiefly in their larger size and 

 darker color, both when moist and when dry. The species is 

 evidently a very rare one. 



Galera sulcatipes Pk. 



SULCATE-STEMMED GaLEEA. 

 (Thirty-fifth State Mus. Rep., p. 182.) 



Pileus thin, ovate, conical or subcampanulate, hygrophanous 

 chestnut-colored and mostly striatulate on the margin when 

 moist, paler when dry ; lamellae ascending, subdistant, adnate, 

 whitish becoming ferruginous-cinnamon ; stem slender, straight 

 or flexuous, equal, hollow, rather tenacious, striate-sulcate, silky, 

 floccose-pruinose toward the base, white ; spores elliptical, 

 ferruginous-cinnamon, .00025 to .0003 in. long, .00016 broad. 



Pileus 5 to 8 lines broad ; stem 1.5 to 3 in. long, about 1 line 

 thick. 



Gregarious on a pile of buckwheat bran lying on the ground in 

 woods. Albany county. August. 



The white and almost shining stem is striate and silky above, 

 pulverulent or floccose-pruinose toward the base where it generally 

 assumes a greenish-blue color if handled when moist. The pileus 

 fades in drying to subochraceous. The lamellae are sometimes 

 white on the edge. Found in 1881 but not detected since. A 

 rare species but very distinct in the character of its stem and 

 in its peculiar habitat. ., 



Galera inculta PJc. 



Rude Galera. 



(Forty -first State Mus. Rep., p. 69.) 



Pileus thin, somewhat fragile, campanulate, then convex or 

 nearly plane, obtuse or rarely with a small umbo, hygrophanous, 

 cinnamon color and striatulate when most, buff color and atomate 

 when dry, sometimes minutely pitted or corrugated, rarely 

 rimose-squamulose ; lamellae broad, subdistant, ventricose, 

 adnexed, white crenulate on the edge, at first pailid, then pale- 

 cinnamon; stem straight or subflexuous, hollow, brittle, slightly 

 silky, reddish-brown, sometimes mealy or pruinose at the top and 

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