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white ; lamellae close, rather broad, aclnate or slightly decurrent, 

 somewhat branched and anastomosing at the base, pale creamy-yellow, 

 the interspaces venose ; stem firm, stout, solid, eccentric or lateral, 

 rarely central, densely tomentose-hairy , dark-brown ; spores elliptical, 

 .0002 to .00025 in. long, .00016 in. broad. 



Plant single or caespitose, 3 to 6 in. high, pileus 3 to 6 in. broad, 

 stem 6 to 15 lines thick. 



Ground and much decayed wood of pine and hemlock. Helder- 

 berg mountains, Sandlake and Gansevoort. August. 



This is a large species, easily recognized by the dark-brown coarsely 

 velvety or densely hairy coat of the stem, which character is suggest- 

 ive of the specific name. It sometimes grows in large tufts, and then 

 the pileus is frequently irregular by reason of mutual compression. 

 In wet weather the pileus is moist and sometimes obscurely mottled 

 with dark spots. Occasionally it emits an unpleasant, dirt-like odor. 



Paxillus pauuoides Fr. 



Panus-like Paxillus. Stemless Paxillus. Pale Paxillus, 



Pileus fleshy, thin, convex or nearly plane, sessile or resupinate, 

 sometimes narrowed behind into a short stem-like base, pubescent or 

 glabrous, yellowish or brownish-yellow ; lamellae narrow, close, an- 

 astomosing and crisped at the base, yellow ; spores subglobose or 

 broadly elliptical, .00018 to .0002 in. long, .00013 to .00016 in. 

 broad. 



Pileus 1 to 2 in. broad and long. 



Decaying wood, usually of pine and hemlock. Albany, Maryland 

 and Adirondack mountains. August and September. 



This is our only sessile species. It grows in open places as well as 

 in woods. It is quite variable in Europe, according to the description 

 in Hymenomycetes Europaei. A form with a whitish pileus (Ayaricus 

 lamellirugis Dec. Fl., Merulius crispus Turpin) is the variety B of 

 Fries. A form with a resupinate cup-like pileus, variety pezizoides, 

 is his variety C, and Gomphus pezizoides Pers. The Handbook also 

 describes a form with a white pileus tinged with violet. Of these, 

 only the var. pezizoides has been found here. It occurs in the Adi- 

 rondack mountain region. 



Paxillus porosus Berk. 

 Porous Paxillus. 



Pileus fleshy, broadly convex or expanded, often irregular or sub- 

 reniform, dry, glabrous or minutely tomentose, reddish-brown, some- 



