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Mycologia 



Illustrations: Cooke, Brit. Fungi pi. 561 (576) ; Gill. Champ. 

 Fr. pi. 131 (354); Hussey, 111. Brit. Myc. 2: pi. 15; Pat. Tab. 

 Fung. 1 : /. 116; and others. 



A common temperate species widely distributed on both conif- 

 erous and deciduous wood, and found in the greatest profusion on 

 the Pacific coast. Plants found by me in Europe and America, 

 and by Earle in Alabama, are recorded as having yellow, very 

 bitter flesh. Several other specific names have been assigned to 

 the plant in Europe. An old French chart includes it among the 

 dangerous mushrooms. 



3. Hypholoma capnoides (Fries) Quel. Champ. Jura Vosg. 338. 



1873 



Agaricus capnoides Fries, Obs. Myc. 2: 27. 1818. 

 Geophila capnoides Quel. Ench. Fung. 113. 1886. 



Pileus fleshy, convex or nearly plane, obtuse, solitary or cespi- 

 tose, 2.5-8 cm. broad; surface glabrous, dry, yellowish, often red- 

 dish or ochraceous on the disk ; context white, with mild taste and 

 odor; lamellae moderately close, adnate, dry, smoky-gray, becom- 

 ing brown or purplish-brown ; spores 7-8 x 4-5 /m ; stipe equal or 

 nearly so, silky, striate at the apex, sometimes curved or flexuous, 

 hollow, pallid, 4-8 cm. long, 4-6 mm. thick. 



Type locality : Sweden. 



Habitat : Stumps and logs of coniferous trees. 



Distribution : Throughout the northern part of North Amer- 

 ica ; also in Europe. 



Illustrations: Cooke, Brit. Fungi pi. 559 (574); Fries, Ic. 

 Hymen, pi. 133, f. 1; Gill, Champ, pi. 131 (353); Harper, Trans. 

 Wise. Acad. Sci. 17 : pi. 74; Ricken, Blatterp. Deutschl. pi. 65, f. 5. 



I have discussed this species in my articles on the fungi of the 

 Pacific coast. Peck had a number of specimens, finding it alone, 

 to the exclusion of H. fasciculare. Kauffman found neither 

 species; Harper found both. Bresadola and I collected it in the 

 Tyrol and I made the following notes from fresh specimens: 

 "Looks like specimens I got in the Adirondacks. Smooth or 

 cracked, glabrous, ochraceous, paler on the margin; veil slight, 

 pallid, evanescent; gills pallid when young, adnate or adnexed, 



