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Mycologia 



The author describes the spores as purple-brown, quite dark, 

 oval, 12 x 8 n; but the specimens show them to be as above noted. 



3. Drosophila fragilis (Peck) comb. nov. 



Hypholoma fragile Peck, Bull. N. Y. State Mus. 131 : 22. 1909. 



Pileus thin, fragile, conic or subcampanulate, becoming convex, 

 obtuse or subumbonate, 1.2-2.4 cm - broad; margin thin, at first 

 appendiculate with fragments of the white veil; surface floccose- 

 squamulose when young, glabrous when mature, yellowish, grayish 

 or subochraceous, sometimes more highly colored in the center; 

 lamellae thin, narrow, crowded, adnate, whitish or pallid, becoming 

 purplish-brown; spores 8-10 x 4-5 /*; stipe slender, fragile, stuffed 

 or hollow, glabrous or minutely floccose, white or pallid, 2.5-5 cm - 

 long, 2-3 mm. thick. 



Type locality : Star Lake, St. Lawrence County, New York. 



Habitat : On decayed wood and leaves in damp woods. 



Distribution : Known only from the type locality. 



Illustration: Bull. N. Y. State Mus. 131 : pi. V , f. 1-7. 



The description of this species reads very much like that of D. 

 appendiculata, but the specimens appear different. I find the 

 spores ovoid to ellipsoid, smooth, pale-yellowish-brown under the 

 microscope, 8-9 x 3.5-5 fx. The specimens from Painted Post are 

 different, probably D. appendiculata. Fresh collections might en- 

 able one to place the species definitely under D. appendiculata. 



4. Drosophila appendiculata Quel. Ench. Fung. 116. 1886 



Agaricus appendiculatus Bull. Herb. Fr. pi. 392. 1788. 

 Hypholoma appendiculatum Quel. Champ. Jura Vosg. 115. 1872. 

 Agaricus saccharinophilus Peck, Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 25: 

 78. 1873. 



Agaricus incertus Peck, Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 29 : 40. 

 1878. 



Agaricus hymenocephalus Peck, Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 31 : 

 34. 1879. 



Hypholoma cutift -actum Peck, Bull. Torrey Club 22 : 490. 1895. 

 Hypholoma flocculentum McClatchie, Proc. S. Cal. Acad. Sci. 1 : 



381. 1897. 



