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Forty-second Annual Report on the 



Woods and pastures. Adirondack mountains, Albany and Rensse- 

 laer counties. August to October. 



The plant is gregarious or csespitose. Sometimes, especially in the 

 variety, it grows in lines or arcs of circles. The margin is often 

 undulated, and in the variety it is, when fresh and moist, clothed with 

 a film of interwoven webby white fibrils which give it a peculiar 

 appearance, and if the spore characters are neglected it might be mis- 

 taken for Glitocybe phyllophila. The disk is often tinged with reddish- 

 yellow or rusty hues when moist and its rivulose character is then 

 more distinct. A farinaceous odor is generally present, especially in 

 the broken or bruised plant, but its taste is bitter and unpleasant. 

 Sometimes bruises of the fresh plant manifest a tendency to assume 

 a smoky-brown or blackish color. The base of the stem is sometimes 

 clothed with a white mycelioid tomentum. The species is apparently 

 closely allied to G. concentricus, Gill., of which the lamellae are said to 

 be cinereous or reddish-cinereous, and the spores of a dirty rosy hue. 



Clitopilus Seymourianus, Ph. 



Seymour's Clitopilus. 



Pileus fleshy, thin, broadly convex or slightly depressed, even, 

 pruinose, whitish with a dark lilac tinge, sometimes lobed and eccentric; 

 lamellae narrow, crowded, decurrent, some of them forked at the base, 

 whitish with a pale flesh-colored tint ; stem equal, silky-fibrillose, 

 hollow; spores minute, globose or nearly so, .00014 to .00016 in. long. 



Pileus 1 to 2.5 in. broad; stem 1.5 to 2.5 in. long, 3 to 4 lines thick. 



Woods. Lewis county. September. 



