REPORT OF THE STATE BOTANIST 1899 



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late on the margin when moist, grayish brown when dry; lamellae 

 grayish when young, pale salmon color when mature; stem rather 

 short, often irregular, silky fibrillose, stuffed or hollow, shining, white. 



^Yet or damp ground. Autumn and spring. Albany and Rens- 

 selaer counties. 



This differs from the type in its irregular pileus and in its shorter 

 and less straight stem. The pileus becomes variegated with paler 

 stripes while the moisture is escaping from it, but these disappear 

 entirely when the evaporation is completed. The European E. c 1 y - 

 peatura, to which it is apparently closely related, is a much larger 

 and stouter plant and is figured as having a solid or merely stuffed 

 stem. 



Inocybe geophylla Sow. 



This species is sometimes quite variable. A group of specimens 

 found growing under pine trees near Warrensburg was composed of 

 specimens having the pileus conic, campanulate or nearly plane, 

 obtuse or umbonate, white or isabelline. 



Paxillus involutus simplex n. var. 



This variety differs from the type in having the lamellae dis- 

 tinct at the base, neither crisped nor anastomosing. Minnewaska. 

 September. 



Cortinarius sphagnophilus Pk. 



Among peat moss, under or near spruce trees in Davis swamp near 

 Warrensburg. October. This species was discovered in 1875 and 

 this is the second time it has been found. The pileus is marked not 

 only with darker spots but also with stripes till the excess of moisture 

 has disappeared. The stem is abundantly silky fibrillose. 



Hydnum chrysocomum Under w. 



Decaying wood and sticks. Montezuma. October. These speci- 

 mens have the aculei about i line long and more acute than in the 

 typical form. The spores are minute, elliptic, .00016 of an inch 

 long, .00008 to .0001 broad. 



Thelephora palmata americana n. var. 



Ultimate branches often slender, terete, pointed, either whitish or 

 concolorous at the apex. 



