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  NEW 
  YORK 
  STATE 
  MUSEUM 
  

  

  more 
  uniform 
  and 
  darker 
  color 
  of 
  the 
  pileus 
  and 
  darker 
  color 
  of 
  the 
  

   mature 
  lamellae 
  and 
  spores 
  are 
  its 
  peculiar 
  features. 
  It 
  is 
  often 
  very 
  

   caespitose 
  and 
  is 
  found 
  especially 
  among 
  alder 
  bushes 
  in 
  swamps. 
  

  

  Flammula 
  carbonaria 
  Fr. 
  

  

  Burnt 
  Ground 
  Flammula. 
  

  

  Hym, 
  Europ. 
  p. 
  247. 
  Syl. 
  Fung. 
  Vol. 
  v. 
  p. 
  817. 
  

  

  Pileus 
  fleshy, 
  thin, 
  convex 
  or 
  nearly 
  plane, 
  even, 
  glabrous, 
  viscid, 
  

   subtawny, 
  flesh 
  yellow; 
  lamellae 
  broad, 
  adnate, 
  crowded, 
  brownish- 
  

   clay 
  color; 
  stem 
  equal 
  or 
  tapering 
  downward, 
  slender, 
  rigid, 
  nar- 
  

   rowly 
  fistulose, 
  fibrillose-squamulose, 
  pallid; 
  spores 
  brownish-fer- 
  

   ruginous, 
  .0003 
  to 
  .0004 
  in. 
  long, 
  .00016 
  to 
  .0002 
  broad. 
  

  

  Pileus 
  I 
  to 
  2 
  in. 
  broad; 
  stem 
  i 
  to 
  2 
  in. 
  long, 
  2 
  to 
  3 
  lines 
  thick. 
  

  

  Burnt 
  ground 
  and 
  charcoal 
  beds. 
  Rensselaer 
  county. 
  June. 
  

   Rare. 
  

  

  European 
  authors 
  do 
  not 
  agree 
  as 
  to 
  the 
  dimensions 
  of 
  the 
  spores 
  

   of 
  this 
  species. 
  In 
  Sylloge 
  they 
  are 
  given 
  as 
  10 
  to 
  11 
  x 
  5 
  to 
  6. 
  In 
  

   British 
  Fungus 
  Flora, 
  as 
  7 
  x 
  3.5. 
  Fries 
  describes 
  the 
  pileus 
  as 
  one 
  

   inch 
  or 
  a 
  little 
  more 
  in 
  width, 
  but 
  Cooke 
  represents 
  it 
  aS 
  much 
  

   broader, 
  sometimes 
  reaching 
  three 
  inches 
  in 
  diameter. 
  The 
  only 
  

   specimens 
  we 
  have 
  ever 
  seen 
  that 
  agree 
  tolerably 
  well 
  with 
  the 
  

   description 
  of 
  the 
  European 
  plant 
  were 
  found 
  growing 
  on 
  ground 
  

   where 
  wood 
  had 
  been 
  burned 
  into 
  charcoal 
  a 
  short 
  time 
  before. 
  

  

  Flammula 
  Highlandensis 
  Pk. 
  

  

  Highland 
  Flammula, 
  

  

  Agariciis 
  Highlandensis, 
  Mus. 
  Rep. 
  24, 
  p. 
  67. 
  

  

  Pileus 
  fleshy, 
  thin, 
  hemispherical 
  or 
  convex, 
  becoming 
  nearly 
  

   plane, 
  glabrous, 
  viscose, 
  yellowish-red, 
  commonly 
  paler 
  or 
  yellowish 
  

   on 
  the 
  inflexed 
  margin, 
  flesh 
  white 
  or 
  whitish, 
  sometimes 
  tinged 
  with 
  

   yellow 
  under 
  the 
  tough 
  separable 
  cuticle; 
  lamellae 
  close, 
  rounded 
  

   behind 
  or 
  adnate, 
  sometimes 
  with 
  a 
  decurrent 
  tooth, 
  pallid 
  or 
  yellow- 
  

   ish 
  when 
  young, 
  becoming 
  ferruginous; 
  stem 
  equal, 
  stuffed 
  or 
  hol- 
  

   low, 
  fibrillose 
  and 
  minutely 
  floccose-squamulose, 
  yellowish; 
  spores 
  

   elliptical, 
  .00024 
  to 
  .0003 
  in. 
  long, 
  .00016 
  broad. 
  

  

  