﻿REPORT 
  OF 
  THE 
  STATE 
  BOTANIST 
  IO7 
  

  

  Damp 
  vegetable 
  mold 
  or 
  much 
  decayed 
  wood 
  under 
  basswood 
  

   trees. 
  Portage. 
  June. 
  

  

  When 
  mature 
  the 
  pileus 
  becomes 
  perforated 
  in 
  the 
  center 
  and 
  soon 
  

   splits 
  into 
  three 
  to 
  five, 
  commonly 
  four, 
  segments, 
  the 
  divisions 
  

   extending 
  a 
  short 
  distance 
  down 
  the 
  stem, 
  allowing 
  the 
  parts 
  of 
  the 
  

   pileus 
  to 
  droop 
  on 
  the 
  recurved 
  upper 
  parts 
  of 
  the 
  stem. 
  This 
  re- 
  

   markable 
  feature 
  of 
  the 
  species 
  has 
  suggested 
  the 
  specific 
  name. 
  .The 
  

   plant 
  is 
  referable 
  to 
  the 
  tribe 
  Tomentosi, 
  but 
  the 
  pileus 
  soon 
  becomes 
  

   glabrous. 
  The 
  veil 
  is 
  whitish 
  or 
  slightly 
  yellowish. 
  The 
  spores 
  

   appear 
  at 
  first 
  to 
  be 
  brownish-black, 
  but 
  they 
  become 
  black 
  after 
  a 
  

  

  short 
  exposure. 
  

  

  Psathyrella 
  hirta 
  n. 
  sp. 
  

  

  Pileus 
  thin, 
  hemispherical 
  or 
  convex, 
  adorned 
  when 
  young 
  with 
  

   erect 
  or 
  spreading 
  tufts 
  of 
  white, 
  easily 
  detersible 
  and 
  quickly 
  evan- 
  

   escent 
  hairs, 
  hygrophanous, 
  brown 
  or 
  reddish-brown 
  and 
  slightly 
  

   striatulate 
  when 
  moist, 
  pale 
  grayish-brown 
  or 
  dingy 
  whitish 
  when 
  

   "dry, 
  flesh 
  subconcolorous; 
  lamellae 
  broad, 
  moderately 
  close, 
  adnate 
  

   and 
  often 
  furnished 
  with 
  a 
  decurrent 
  tooth, 
  at 
  first 
  pallid, 
  becoming 
  

   blackish-brown 
  or 
  black; 
  stem 
  flexuose, 
  squamose, 
  hollow, 
  shining, 
  

   white; 
  spores 
  elliptical, 
  black, 
  .0005 
  to 
  .00055 
  i^- 
  loi^§"» 
  .00025 
  to 
  

   .0003 
  broad. 
  

  

  Subcasspitose 
  ; 
  pileus 
  4 
  to 
  6 
  Hues 
  broad; 
  stem 
  i 
  to 
  2 
  in. 
  long 
  i 
  to 
  

   1.5 
  lines 
  thick. 
  

  

  Dung 
  or 
  dungy 
  ground 
  in 
  shaded 
  places. 
  Adirondack 
  mountains. 
  

   July. 
  

  

  The 
  species 
  has 
  some 
  points 
  of 
  similarity 
  to 
  Psathyra 
  gossypina 
  and 
  

   P. 
  pennata, 
  but 
  its 
  adnate 
  lamellae 
  and 
  black 
  spores 
  distinguish 
  it 
  from 
  

   both. 
  The 
  hairs 
  of 
  the 
  pileus 
  are 
  coarse 
  and 
  vanish 
  so 
  easily 
  that 
  

   they 
  are 
  preserved 
  with 
  difficulty 
  in 
  the 
  dried 
  specimens. 
  

  

  Boletus 
  auripes 
  n. 
  sp. 
  

   Pileus 
  convex, 
  subglabrous, 
  yellowish-brown, 
  sometimes 
  cracking 
  

   in 
  areas 
  when 
  old, 
  flesh 
  yellow, 
  fading 
  to 
  whitish 
  with 
  age; 
  tubes 
  

   nearly 
  plane, 
  their 
  mouths 
  small, 
  subrotund, 
  at 
  first 
  stuffed, 
  yellow; 
  

   stem 
  nearly 
  equal, 
  solid, 
  even 
  or 
  slightly 
  reticulated 
  at 
  the 
  top, 
  

   bright 
  yellow, 
  a 
  little 
  paler 
  within 
  ; 
  spores 
  ochraceous-brown 
  tinged 
  

   with 
  green, 
  .0005 
  in. 
  long, 
  .0002 
  broad. 
  

  

  