Murrill: Dark-Spored Agarics 



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Type locality : Westport, New York. 

 Habitat : In mixed woods. 



Distribution : Known only from the type locality. 

 Illustration: Peck, Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 54: pi. 1, 



f. 1-4. 



Specimens at Albany are small, black, and very unsatisfactory 

 for comparison. According to Kauffman, this species may be a 

 form of G. maculatus. 



7. Gomphidius FURCATus Peck, Bull. N. Y. State Mus. 5 : 649. 



1899 



Pileus fleshy, convex or nearly plane, rarely somewhat umbonate, 

 2.5-5 cm - broad; surface glabrous, viscid, whitish, sometimes 

 tinged with red, occasionally with blackish stains when old or be- 

 coming blackish when bruised ; context white ; lamellae thick, dis- 

 tant, decurrent, many of them forked, whitish, becoming sooty- 

 brown; spores oblong or subfusiform, 15-20 x 6-8 /*.; stipe longer 

 than the diameter of the pileus, rather slender, curved or flexuous, 

 firm, solid, whitish, 3.5-7.5 cm. long, 3-6 mm. thick. 



Type locality: Kasoag, New York. 



Habitat : Under or near tamarack trees in swamps. 



Distribution : New York. 



Well represented at Albany by several good typical specimens 

 on a sheet. 



Stropharia (Fries) Quel., Champ. Jura Vosg. no. 1872 



Agaricus § Stropharia Fries, Monog. Hymen. Suec. 1 : 409. 1857. 

 Geophila Quel. Ench. Fung. in. 1886. 



This rather large genus is distinguished by a fleshy stipe, adnate 

 or adnexed lamellae, and the presence of an annulus, which last is 

 somewhat uncertain at times because of its evanescent character. 

 Several of the species grow on manure or manured ground and are 

 widely distributed. The tropical species of this genus were treated 

 in MycologIa for March, 1918, and the western species in Myco- 

 logia for November, 1912. 



Pileus viscid or subviscid, glabrous, or slightly squamulose in two species. 

 Pileus ornamented with scattered, floccose scales. 



Surface of pileus yellowish. i. S. distans 



Surface of ,'iileus greenish. 2. 5\ acuminata 



