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Mycologia 



applies this term to the spores, which was probably an error on 

 his part. Because of this some have claimed that the species 

 should be transferred to Pluteus. Hard says that he found the 

 plant on three different occasions in Haynes' Hollow growing on 

 old stumps and decayed logs. His figure is from a photograph of 

 some of his plants taken by Kellerman and his description from 

 Peck, no reference being made to the color of the spores. 



Ellis found his plants among moss in swamps at Newfield, New 

 Jersey, in sufficient quantity for distribution. An original packet 

 in his herbarium is marked " July 30, 1887. Spores ellipsoid, 

 3.5-4 x 2 /x, olive-brown." In his description, he says the green 

 shade is very distinct. He agrees with Peck in calling the lamellae 

 " free." 



Kauffman's specimens, some of which I saw at Albany, came 

 from Bay View, New Richmond, Michigan, on much-decayed 

 wood or logs in mixed woods. According to him the lamellae are 

 adnate at first, then seceding; and the spores purplish-brown in 

 mass, pale under the microscope. I find them to be identical with 

 those from specimens collected by Peck and Ellis. Mrs. Delafield 

 got a cluster of three hymenophores at Buck Hill Falls, Pennsyl- 

 vania, last July and made a colored sketch of it. She found the 

 " lamellae free or slightly adnate, separating readily from the stipe ; 

 odor very sweet, taste sweet." 



The differences in the color of the spores recorded above are 

 doubtless due to observations made on fresh and dried spores in 

 mass by reflected light and under a microscope by transmitted light 

 varying in intensity. 



W. A. MURRILL 



