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whitish, taste acid and disagreeable; tubes short, adnate, concave 

 in the mass in young plants, becoming plane with age, the mouths 

 minute, subrotund, pale yellow, becoming darker with age; stem 

 firm, equal or slightly tapering upward, subflexuous, solid, minutely 

 dotted with brown or brownish glands, both above and below the 

 slight, mostly glutinous and evanescent annulus; spores sub- 

 ferruginous, oblong elliptic, .0003-.0004 of an inch long, .00012.- 

 .00016 broad. 



Pileus 1-2 inches broad; stem 1.5-3 inches long, 2-3 lines thick. 

 Under pine and hemlock trees. Port Henry. August. 



This species belongs to the section Viscipelles. It is closely re- 

 lated to Boletus punctipes and B. americanus 

 from which it is separated by its slight but mostly evanescent 

 annulus and by its acid taste. 



Clavaria conjuncta Pk. 



Among fallen leaves in woods. Bolton Landing, Warren co. 

 July. For a description of the species, turn to the chapter on edible 

 fungi. 



Clitopilus squamulosus n. sp. 



PLATE S, FIG. 5-8 



Pileus thin, nearly plane, deeply umbilicate, floccose squamulose, 

 specially in the center, grayish brown and shining, flesh whitish; 

 lamellae close, adnate or slightly decurrent, tinged with flesh color; 

 stem long, slightly tapering upward, hollow, fibrous striate and 

 colored like or a little paler than the pileus in the upper part, even 

 -and white toward the base ; spores flesh color, subquadrate, angular, 

 .0005 of an inch broad, with a large shining nucleus. 



Pileus 1-1.5 inches broad; stem 3-4 inches long, 2-3 lines thick. 

 Among fallen leaves in woods. Bolton Landing. July. 



A species easily recognized by its squamulose deeply umbilicate 

 pileus. The squamules in the center of the pileus are erect. 



Coccospora aurantiaca Wallr. 

 Decayed wood. Lyndonville, Orleans co. C. E. Fairman. 



Cortinarius rubripes n. sp. 



Pileus thin, broadly convex becoming plane or nearly so, some- 

 times slightly depressed in the center, rarely slightly umbonate, 

 minutely silky fibrillose, grayish ferruginous or pale alutaceous, 

 flesh whitish; lamellae subdistant, emarginate, violaceous becoming 

 cinnamon; stem enlarged or subbulbous at the base, hollow, bright 

 red; spores elliptic, .0003-.0004 of an inch long, about .0002 broad. 



