8 BULLETIN N. Y. STATE MUSEUM. 



Dermocybe simulans. 



Pileus fleshy, thin, convex, then expanded, at first grayish-viola- 

 ceous and silky-librillose, then pale-cinereous, often tinged with }'ellow 

 or brownish-yellow on the disk, flesh pale-violaceous or pale-cinereous ; 

 lamellae rather broad, eubventricose, rounded behind, moderately 

 close, violaceous, becoming cinnamon-colored ; stem short, equal or 

 slightly thickened at the base, silky-fibrillose, shining, stuffed or 

 hollow, violaceous, becoming whitish or pallid ; spores subglobose 

 or broadly elliptical, .0003 to .00035 in. long, .00025 to .0003 in. 

 broad. 



Plant 1 to 2 in. high, .pileus 6 to 18 lines broad, stem about 2 

 lines thick. 



Woods. Sandlake. July. 



The colors of this species are so similar to those of Inoloma albo- 

 violacea that the plant might at first sight be mistaken for a small 

 form of that species, but its small size, thin pileus and short, hollow 

 stem afford distinguishing characters. 



Telamoiiia gracilis. 



Pileus thin, convex or campanulate, then expanded, umbonate, 

 floccose-fibrillose, hygrophanous, watery-brown or sordid-chestnut 

 when moist, whitened on the margin with grayish fibrils, subochra- 

 ceous or tawny-cinnamon when dry ; lamellae thin, subdistant, be- 

 coming subventricose, ferruginous-brown, becoming cinnamon-colored; 

 stem long, slender, flexuous, fibrillose and slightly floccose-scaly, with 

 a slight whitish evanescent annulus, colored like the pileus ; spores 

 elliptical, uninucleate, .0004 to .00045 in. long, .00025 to .0003 in. 

 broad. 



Plant 2 to 4 in. high, pileus 6 to 12 lines broad, stem 1 to 2 lines 

 thick. 



Among moss and sphagnum in marshes. Sandlake. August. 



The umbo is small and sometimes acute, rarely obsolete. The dry 

 pileus varies much in color, it being tawny, cinnamon, subochraceous 

 or grayish-cervine. The young lamellae also vary from ferruginous- 

 brown to reddish-umber and sometimes have a slight violaceous tint. 

 The species is apparently related to Telamonia flexipes and T. rigida, 

 but the first is described as having the stem violaceous at the apex, 

 and the second as having the pileus glabrous, both of which charac- 

 ters are wanting in our plant. 



Variety brevtpes has the stem but 1 or 2 inches long. It occur- 

 on decaying wood. 



