﻿REPORT 
  OF 
  THE 
  STATE 
  BOTANIST 
  IO5 
  

  

  like 
  the 
  pileus; 
  spores 
  tawny-brown, 
  elliptical, 
  even, 
  .0004 
  to 
  .0005 
  in. 
  

   long, 
  .0002 
  to 
  .00025 
  broad. 
  

  

  Pileus 
  8 
  to 
  12 
  lines 
  broad; 
  stem 
  i 
  to 
  1.5 
  in. 
  long, 
  i 
  to 
  2 
  lines 
  thick. 
  

  

  Clay 
  soil. 
  Menands. 
  July. 
  This 
  plant 
  resembles 
  Inocybe 
  ochracea, 
  

   from 
  which 
  it 
  may 
  be 
  separated 
  by 
  its 
  more 
  highly 
  colored 
  squamu- 
  

   lose 
  stem 
  and 
  its 
  larger 
  spores. 
  It 
  belongs 
  to 
  the 
  tribe 
  Squarrosse. 
  

  

  Cortinarius 
  nitidus 
  Fr. 
  

  

  Swampy 
  woods. 
  Gansevoort. 
  August. 
  

  

  Paxillus 
  Curtisii 
  Berk. 
  

   Decaying 
  pine 
  wood 
  and 
  stumps. 
  Mechanicville 
  and 
  Round 
  

   Lake. 
  September 
  and 
  October. 
  The 
  description 
  of 
  this 
  species 
  

   appears 
  to 
  have 
  been 
  omitted 
  from 
  Saccardo's 
  Sylloge 
  Fungorum. 
  It 
  

   resembles 
  Paxillus 
  pamioides 
  in 
  size 
  and 
  general 
  habit, 
  but 
  it 
  differs 
  

   from 
  that 
  species 
  very 
  decidedly 
  in 
  its 
  orange-colored 
  narrow 
  lam- 
  

   ellae, 
  which 
  are 
  more 
  wavy 
  or 
  crisped 
  and 
  more 
  branched 
  and 
  con- 
  

   nected. 
  Sometimes 
  they 
  anastomose 
  throughout 
  their 
  whole 
  length, 
  

   sometimes 
  they 
  are 
  forked 
  near 
  the 
  margin 
  of 
  the 
  pileus 
  and 
  abund- 
  

   antly 
  crisped 
  and 
  connected 
  toward 
  the 
  base. 
  The 
  spores 
  are 
  minute, 
  

   .00016 
  in. 
  long, 
  .00008 
  broad. 
  The 
  color 
  of 
  the 
  pileus 
  in 
  the 
  typical 
  

   form 
  is 
  said 
  to 
  be 
  sulphur-yellow 
  and 
  the 
  substance 
  tawny. 
  In 
  oui' 
  

   specimens 
  the 
  pileus 
  is 
  commonly 
  tawny 
  and 
  the 
  flesh 
  yellow, 
  just 
  

   the 
  reverse 
  of 
  the 
  characters 
  ascribed 
  in 
  the 
  type. 
  The 
  pileus 
  is 
  apt 
  

   to 
  become 
  blackish 
  in 
  drying, 
  either 
  wholly 
  or 
  in 
  part, 
  and 
  the 
  plant 
  

   emits 
  a 
  peculiar 
  strong 
  odor, 
  which 
  it 
  retains 
  for 
  a 
  long 
  time 
  even 
  in 
  

  

  the 
  dried 
  state. 
  

  

  Stropharia 
  siccipes 
  Karst 
  

  

  On 
  dung 
  in 
  pasture. 
  Jordanville, 
  Herkiner 
  county. 
  June. 
  

  

  This 
  dung-inhabiting 
  mushroom 
  is 
  related 
  to 
  Stropharia 
  stercoraria 
  

   and 
  S. 
  semiglobata, 
  but 
  it 
  differs 
  from 
  both 
  in 
  its 
  dry 
  flocculose 
  and 
  

   minutely 
  fibrillose 
  stem. 
  The 
  veil 
  is 
  white 
  and 
  often 
  adheres 
  in 
  frag- 
  

   ments 
  to 
  the 
  margin 
  of 
  the 
  pileus, 
  thereby 
  making 
  an 
  approach 
  to 
  the 
  

   genus 
  Hypholoma. 
  In 
  such 
  cases 
  the 
  annulus 
  is 
  very 
  slight 
  or 
  wholly 
  

   wanting. 
  The 
  stem 
  is 
  stuffed 
  with 
  a 
  white 
  cottony 
  pith, 
  but 
  it 
  some- 
  

   times 
  becomes 
  hollow 
  wnth 
  age. 
  The 
  pileus 
  is 
  viscid 
  when 
  moist 
  

   and 
  quite 
  variable 
  in 
  color. 
  

  

  