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Mycologia 



5. Gomphidius maculatus (Scop.) Fries, Epicr. Myc. 319. 



1838 



Agaricus maculatus Scop. Fl. Carn. ed. 2, 2 : 448. 1772. 



Pileus solitary to subcespitose, fleshy, convex, 4-8 cm. broad; 

 surface viscid, dull-brownish-pink, becoming black-spotted; con- 

 text thick, white; lamellae short-decurrent, thick, branched, of 

 medium width, distant, at first whitish, then blackening; spores 

 narrowly ellipsoid, smooth, pale-brown under the microscope, 18- 

 23 x 8/x; stipe short, firm, equal, pale-brown, often blackening 

 above, covered with a yellowish-brown tomentum, especially toward 

 the base, yellowish-red within, 4-5 cm. long, 6-8 mm. thick; veil 

 not evident. 



Type locality : Carniola. 



Habitat : Among moss or debris in moist woods, especially 

 under larch trees. 



Distribution: New York and Michigan; also in Europe. 



Illustration : Kauffm. Agar. Mich. pi. 23. 



Specimens collected by Bresadola and myself in the Tyrol were 

 described by me while fresh as follows : " Pileus viscid, smooth, 

 glabrous, rosy-isabelline, spotted with black and becoming darker ; 

 lamellae rosy-isabelline when fresh, becoming smoky, distant, 

 venose-connected, adnate or slightly decurrent ; stipe lemon-yellow 

 at the apex and pale-lemon-yellow at the base, smooth, glabrous, 

 equal, concolorous, blackening like the pileus. A totally different 

 plant from G. viscidus." 



G. stvllatus Strass., mentioned by Peck in Report 27 as occurring 

 in the Adirondacks, should probably be referred to this species. 

 According to Kauffman, G. gracilis Berk. & Br. is also probably 

 not distinct. 



6. Gomphidius flavipes Peck, Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 54- 



153. 1901 



Pileus convex or nearly plane, 2-2.5 cm - broad; surface viscid, 

 minutely tomentose in the center, slightly fibrillose on the margin, 

 dingy-pink ; context white ; lamellae arcuate-decurrent, distant, 

 whitish; spores oblong-fusiform, 22-30 x 6-8 stipe equal or 

 somewhat narrowed below and pointed at the base, solid, slightly 

 fibrillose, whitish at the apex, elsewhere pale-yellow both externally 

 and internally, 4-6 cm. long, 6-8 mm. thick. 



