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odor and taste ; lamellae more or less sinuate, rather narrow, not 

 crowded, soon becoming rose-colored ; spores decidedly angular, 

 apiculate, uniguttulate, rose-colored, copious, 6-8 /x ; stipe equal, 

 rather short, often twisted, pruinose at the apex, polished and 

 asbestos-like below, white or pale-avellaneous, 4-5 cm. long, 3-6 

 mm. thick. 



Common about New York City, and found on the ground in 

 woods from New England to the mountains of Virginia. 



Leptoniella grisea (Peck) Murrill 

 Gray Leptoniella 



Plate 7. Figure 2. X 1 



Pileus broadly convex or plane, umbilicate, 1.2-2.5 cm - broad; 

 surface striatulate when moist, grayish-brown, glabrous, except 

 on the umbilicus, which is squamulose ; lamellae broad, subdis- 

 tant, grayish; spores subglobose, angular, uninucleate, 7.5-10 /*; 

 stipe slender, hollow, glabrous, concolorous, 3.5-6 cm. long, 2 mm. 

 thick. 



A rare species found among sphagnum or in humus in wet 

 woods in Maine and New York. 



Entoloma salmoneum Peck 

 Salmon-colored Entoloma 



Plate 7. Figure 3. X 1 



Pileus thin, conic or campanulate, subacute or with a minute 

 papilla or small cusp at the apex, gregarious, 1.5-3 cm - broad; 

 surface glabrous, moist, salmon-colored, margin sometimes un- 

 even or lobed ; lamellae broad, subdistant, ventricose, salmon-col- 

 ored ; spores subglobose, angular, 10-12. 5 /x in diameter; stipe 

 slender, equal, glabrous, hollow, concolorous, 7.5-15 cm. long, 2-4 

 mm. thick. 



This beautiful species is frequent in dense woods from New 

 England to Ohio. Dr. Peck selected an excellent name for it. 



