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But those on_the paper had a distinct pinkish or salmon color. Other 

 collections of this mushroom and its spores show that, when the latter 

 are gathered in a thin layer on white paper, the salmon tint is very faint, 

 and it would be easy to mistake it for sordid white, but, if gathered in a 

 thick layer, the color is decidedly and unmistakably salmon or pinkish 

 and would require the reference of the species to the genus E n t o 1 o m a . 

 If then the species we have been referring to T. p e r s o n a t u m is the 

 same as the European mushroom of that name, and I see no reason for 

 doubting their identity other than that furnished by the color of the 

 spores, T. personatum should take the name Entoloma 

 person atum. 



In a considerable number of specimens of this mushroom collected on 

 the same day and in the same locality, some had the disagreeable odor 

 of E. g r a V e o I e n s and some had not. In no case was it as persistent 

 as in the type specimens ofE. graveolens. This then is clearly a 

 variable character, and it may be necessary to reduce E. graveolens 

 to the rank of a mere variety of the other if our supposition is correct. 

 We have indicated how easily the color of the spores of our plant may be 

 mistaken for sordid white, and this may explain why the European plant 

 was first placed in the genus T r i c h o 1 o m a . And yet it is apparent 

 that European mycologists have not always been satisfied with the posi- 

 tion of T. personatum, for at one time it was removed to a genus 

 Lepista, in which the spores are described as dirty white or sordid. 

 This arrangement was not generally adopted, and at present is not follow- 

 ed. Whether mycologists would be willing to remove a species from a 

 genus with which it has so long been associated, merely on account of the 

 color of the spores, is perhaps doubtful. But certainly the true color of 

 the spores sfcould be made known that it may not be a stumbling-block to 

 students. 



We have another mushroom which agrees well with the description of 

 T r i c h o 1 o m a nudum in all its characters except possibly the 

 color of its spores. These have a salmon hue, though perhaps not quite 

 so pronounced as in the preceding species. It is, however, more decided 

 than in the spores of Clitopilus noveboracensis, and, if 

 allowed the weight usually given to this character, would throw the plant 

 in the pink-spored series. The greater tendency of the lamellae to be 

 decurrent would indicate its place to be in the genus Clitopilus 

 rather than in Entoloma. For the present the few specimens seen 

 have been referred to T r i c h o 1 o ni a nudum, but farther investiga- 

 tion may require a different reference. 



