REPORT OF THE STx\TE BOTANIST I9IO 85 



Psathyra conica Pk. 



CONIC PSATHYRA 



N. Y. State Mus. Rep't 54, v. i; report of the State Botanist p. 153, pl.H, 



fig. 17-22 



Pileus thin, conic, rarely convex, glabrous, hygrophanous, dark 

 brown when moist, pale ochraceous when dry; lamellae very broad, 

 close, adnate, whitish or pallid when young, dark brown when 

 mature, often white crenulate on the edge; stem slender, hollow, 

 silky fibrillose, brown ; spores 5-6 /j-. long, 3-4 ij. broad. 



Pileus 8-12 mm broad; stem 2-4 cm long, i mm thick. 



Decaying prostrate trunks of spruce. Franklin co. September. 

 Rare. 



Psathyra polytrichophila Pk. 



MOSS-LOVING PSATHYRA 

 N. Y. State Mus. Rep't 30, p. 42 



Pileus thin, convex or subcampanulate, glabrous, fragile, some- 

 times with a slight umbo, hygrophanous, brown and striatulate on 

 the margin when moist, pale ochraceous or bufif color when dry, 

 subshining; lamellae plane, adnate or slightly arcuate and subde- 

 current, broad, subdistant, purplish brown ; stem slender, equal, 

 stuffed with a whitish pith, mealy at the top, slightly fibrillose to- 

 ward the base, colored like the pileus ; spores purplish brown, 

 8 p. long, 5 ,'j. broad. 



Pileus 4-10 mm broad; stem 2.5-5 ^1^"^ lo^ig^ 1-2 mm thick. 



Gregarious. Ground among hair cap mosses, Polytrichum. Al- 

 bany and Oneida counties. May. Rare. 



Fibrillosae 



Pileus and stem at first lloccose or fibrillose from the universal 

 veil. 



KEY TO THE SPECIES 



Pileus umbonate umbonata 



Pileus obtuse vestita 



Psathyra umbonata Pk. 



UMBONATE PSATHYRA 

 N. Y. State Mus. Rep't 50 1:106 

 Pileus submembranous, campanulate, strongly umbonate, hygro- 

 phanous, purplish brown and striatulate when moist, grayish white 

 when dry, even or slightly rugulose, atoniate, often radiatcly sul- 



