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Mycologia 
leiphaemia, also collected by Sullivant in Ohio. The spores of 
the typical specimens are ovoid to ellipsoid, pointed at one end, 
smooth, hyaline, granular, 6-7 X 3-4 n- 
Another packet bearing the same number and named A. mucifer 
by Montagne contains still another species. There are in it two 
old and insect-eaten specimens with slender stipe, thin, crowded 
lamellae, and pale-purple surface, fading toward the margin. 
They resemble Tricholoma Russula , but are thinner and have a 
much longer stipe. The spores are broadly ellipsoid to globose, 
smooth, hyaline, granular, 7 X 6-6.5 /*• It is very evident that 
Montagne had difficulty in distinguishing species in the dried 
state and that the various species we have of the group repre- 
sented by Tricholoma Russula and Tricholoma transmutans were 
confusing to him as they are to us. It is highly desirable that 
fresh specimens of this group be collected and carefully compared 
with Montagne’s description of A. mucifer. 
W. A. Murrill. 
