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The pileus is sometimes attached by the vertex, and the margin 

 is often beautifully crenately lobed or scalloped. 



Entoloma cyaneum Pk. 



Decaying- logs in woods. Morehouseville. July. These speci- 

 mens differ from*the type in having the pileus grayish-brown and 

 the stem wholly bluish. The species approaches E, griseo-cyaneum 

 very closely, but differs in the color of the pileus. It is very rare. 



Pholiota discolor Pk. 



Two forms of this species are found. One has a scattered mode 

 of growth, the other a csespitose. The latter was found on decay- 

 ing wood of birch, Betula lutea, at Morehouseville. The species is 

 ^ allied to P. marginata, from which it is readily distinguished by its 



viscid pileus. 



Stropharia squamosa Fr. 



Specimens collected near Salamanca agree very closely with the 

 d'escription of this species, but they differ in having the pileus of a 

 beautiful orange-red color. In this respect, and indeed in many 

 other respects, they agree better with the description of Stropharia 

 thrausta, but disagree in having the pileus neither hygrophanous 

 nor glabrous. The plants are generally rather slender, though 

 individuals occur having a stout stem and a pileus three or four 

 inches broad. This is viscid and beautifully adorned with whitish 

 superficial scales which are easily destroyed. The margin is often 

 appendiculate. The lamellae are broad and subdistant, and the 

 stem is long, hollow, floccose-squamose and annulate. The whole 

 plant is fragile, but this may be due in a measure to the fact that it 

 is apt to be infested by the larvae of insects. It is probably to be 

 considered a variety of S. squamosa and is apparently equivalent 

 to Agaricus tliraustus y&t. aurantiacus of Cooke's Illustrations. 



Boletus punctipes Pk. 



Under pine trees. Corning, Steuben county. September. This 



species had not been observed by me since its discovery in 1878. 



The spores when first dropped are olive green on white paper, 



but the greenish hue soon fades or rather changes to brownish- 



ochraceous. 



Coniophora puteana Fr. 



If this species is rightly understood by me it is, as Fries says, a 

 very variable one. It varies not only in the color of the hymenium 

 but also in its character and in that of the margin. The hymenium 



