REPORT OF THE STATE BOTANIST I909 55 



5 Pilens gray or grayish 6 



6 Young lamellae whitish griseoscabrosa 



6 Young lamellae pale violaceous violaceifolia 



7 Pileus chestnut color castanea 



7 Pileus brown or dark brown umboninota 



7 Pileus brownish with a whitish center albodisca 



8 Pileus tawny gray rigidipes 



8 Pileus brownish asterospora 



Inocybe excoriata Pk. 



EXCORIATE INOCYBE 

 N. Y. State Mus. Bui. 75, p.i6, pl.O, fig.14-19 



Pileus fleshy, broadly conic becoming broadly convex, umbonate, 

 fibrillose or fibrillosely squamulose, slightly silky or tomentose on 

 the margin, grayish brown, the cuticle often cracking and peeling, 

 flesh white ; lamellae close, narrow, adnexed, with a decurrent tooth, 

 white becoming brownish gray, whitish and crenulate on the edge; 

 stem equal, solid, silky fibrillose, white or whitish ; spores ellipsoid^ 

 even, 8-10 x 5-6 !>■, cystidia flask shape, 50-60 x 12-20 !>, 



Pileus 2.5-5 cm broad; stem 2.5-5 cm long, 4-6 mm thick. 



Among fallen leaves in woods. Hamilton co. August. 



The surface of the pileus cracks radiately and thereby indicates 

 the section to which the species belongs. A slight whitish webby 

 veil is present in the young plant. 



Inocybe pallidipes E. & E. 



PALE STEM INOCYBE 

 Jour. Myc. 5, p. 24 



Pileus conic or campanulate becoming expanded, umbonate, 

 fibrihosely squamose, innately or subrimosely scaly on the disk, sub- 

 rimose on the margin, brown or pale brown ; lamellae subclose, 

 rather broad, ascending, becoming ventricose, adnate with a decur- 

 rent tooth, pallid becoming clay color or watery cinnamon ; stem 

 solid, slightly narrowed and mealy above, loosely fibrillose below, 

 subbulbous, white, white tomentose at the base ; spores unequally 

 ellipsoid, even, 7-10 x 5-6 !>-, cystidia ventricosely fusoid or flask 

 shape, 40-60 X 14-20/^-. 



Pileus 2-3 cm broad ; stem 2.5-5 cm long, 2'-4 mm thick. 



Decaying w\ood and vegetable mold. Warren co. July. 



This species may be recognized by its umbonate pileus and per- 

 sistently white stem. The umbo is sometimes more highly colored 



