﻿REPORT 
  OF 
  THE 
  STATE 
  BOTANIST 
  1903 
  15 
  

  

  Hebeloma 
  socialis 
  n. 
  sp. 
  

  

  Pileus 
  fleshy 
  but 
  thin, 
  convex, 
  becoming 
  plane 
  or 
  nearly 
  so, 
  

   glabrous, 
  slightly 
  viscid 
  when 
  moist, 
  dingy 
  yellowish 
  white, 
  flesh 
  

   concolorous, 
  taste 
  nauseous 
  ; 
  lamellae 
  thin, 
  close, 
  slightly 
  rounded 
  

   behind, 
  adnexed, 
  at 
  first 
  whitish, 
  then 
  yellowish, 
  finally 
  brownish 
  

   ferruginous; 
  stem 
  short, 
  fibrous, 
  floccose 
  fibrillose, 
  hollow 
  with 
  a 
  

   small 
  cavity, 
  white; 
  spores 
  brownish 
  ferruginous, 
  elliptic, 
  .00025- 
  

   .0003 
  of 
  an 
  inch 
  long, 
  .00016-.0002 
  broad. 
  

  

  Pileus 
  8-15 
  lines 
  broad; 
  stem 
  12-18 
  lines 
  long, 
  1.5-3 
  lines 
  thick. 
  

   Closely 
  gregarious 
  or 
  subeespitose. 
  Among 
  short 
  grass 
  in 
  pas- 
  

   tures 
  and 
  golf 
  ground. 
  Menands. 
  October. 
  Distinguished 
  from 
  

   our 
  other 
  white 
  or 
  whitish 
  species 
  by 
  its 
  peculiar 
  habitat 
  and 
  

   mode 
  of 
  growth 
  and 
  by 
  its 
  small 
  spores. 
  

  

  Hypomyces 
  boletinus 
  n. 
  sp. 
  

  

  Perithecia 
  minute, 
  conic 
  or 
  subglobose, 
  closely 
  nestling 
  in 
  a 
  

   pallid 
  or 
  whitish 
  subiculum, 
  pale 
  red 
  or 
  orange; 
  asci 
  slender, 
  

   linear, 
  .001.005 
  of 
  an 
  inch 
  long, 
  scarcely 
  .0003 
  broad; 
  spores 
  sub- 
  

   fusiform, 
  continuous, 
  acuminate 
  or 
  apiculate 
  at 
  one 
  end, 
  .0008-.001 
  

   of 
  an 
  inch 
  long, 
  .00025 
  broad. 
  

  

  On 
  some 
  unrecognized 
  decaying 
  boletus, 
  associated 
  with 
  

   Sepedonium 
  chrysospermum. 
  It 
  differs 
  from 
  H 
  . 
  

   polyporinus, 
  to 
  which 
  it 
  is 
  most 
  closely 
  related, 
  in 
  its 
  

   more 
  highly 
  colored 
  perithecia 
  and 
  longer 
  spores, 
  and 
  from 
  

   H 
  . 
  b 
  o 
  1 
  e 
  t 
  i 
  c 
  o 
  1 
  a 
  in 
  the 
  color 
  of 
  the 
  subiculum. 
  

  

  Hydnum 
  balsameum 
  n. 
  sp. 
  

  

  Resupinate 
  with 
  a 
  very 
  thin 
  whitish 
  or 
  pallid 
  subiculum 
  ; 
  aculei 
  

   mere 
  conic 
  brown 
  points 
  closely 
  scattered 
  but 
  not 
  crowded, 
  giving 
  

   to 
  the 
  surface 
  a 
  brown 
  color. 
  

  

  Decorticated 
  wood 
  of 
  balsam 
  fir. 
  North 
  Elba. 
  September. 
  It 
  

   sometimes 
  grows 
  on 
  the 
  bark 
  also. 
  

  

  Hydnum 
  macrescens 
  Banker 
  in 
  lit. 
  

  

  Resupinate, 
  effused, 
  the 
  thin 
  subiculum 
  less 
  than 
  1 
  mm 
  thick, 
  

  

  ochraceous, 
  subfarinaceous, 
  specially 
  in 
  the 
  thinner 
  portions 
  and 
  

  

  on 
  the 
  woody 
  substratum, 
  rimose, 
  the 
  margin 
  indeterminate; 
  

  

  mycelium 
  white, 
  arachnoid, 
  spreading 
  in 
  places 
  beyond 
  the 
  subic- 
  

  

  