NOTES ON A FEW SPECIES OF ASHEVILLE 



FUNGI 



H. C. Beardslee 

 (With Plate 4, Containing 3 Figures) 



The last instalment of North American Flora, vol. 9, part 5, 

 has greatly interested me. The number of species of our fleshy 

 fungi which are considered is very great and the amount of work 

 which has been done will doubtless be of much value to all stu- 

 dents of the fungi. Some of the conclusions reached would seem 

 to admit of some argument, but time and discussion will doubtless 

 settle the doubtful points. 



At present I am interested in some of the species considered as 

 doubtful. A few of these have seemed to me to occur in my col- 

 lecting grounds. 



Among these doubtful species, the one which was most of a 

 shock is Mycena stylobates. A very interesting Mycena occurs 

 at Asheville, which is doubtless the one on which the reports of 

 Mycena stylobates have been based. It is very distinct, and has 

 so many of the characters attributed to Quelet's species that I 

 have always referred it there. Plate 4., f. 1, which accompanies 

 these notes, shows its characters fairly well. As I have found it, 

 the pileus was 4-6 mm. broad, pale-gray in color, thin and mem- 

 branous, campanulate, becoming expanded, striate to the disk, and 

 bearing a few scattered hairs, which are plainly visible under a 

 lens; gills free or nearly so, ventricose, distant; stipe 2-5 cm. 

 long, filiform and fragile, glabrous, seated on a flat disk which is 

 marked with distinct striations and fringed with a row of bris- 

 tles ; spores 6X3/*. The peculiar and striking feature is the base 

 of the stipe. I have seen no other species which resembles it in 

 this particular. In the figure, this feature can be distinctly seen. 

 It will be seen that our plant answers the description very well 

 except that the color as it occurs here is pale-gray and not white. 

 Stevenson says of it, however, "commonly wholly white, but 



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