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dried plants. We have observed this character in Hypholoma 
candolleanum, PI. LXXXIII Bi. The apex is often perforate. 
The gills are whitish becoming nearly black, the apex of the stem 
is striate and the base very white myceloid. Spores 7%yfl2/A, 
quite large for the group. 
There are two more Californian species which Murrill, who 
has examined the type specimens says are very similar to Hy¬ 
pholoma longipes, Hypholoma campanulatum Pk. Torr. Bull. 
June, 1909, p. 336 and Hypholoma califomicum Earle. Bull. 
X. Y. Bot. Garden 2 pi. 344. The latter is larger than Hypho¬ 
loma longipes and has ventricose gills and smaller spores, 3x5 
—6/a. 
f. Pileus floccose, especially when young. 
Atkinson, Mushrooms, Pl. 7 shows the floccose form of Hy¬ 
pholoma appendiculatum. 
Bondier Icon. My col. I t. 137 figures Hypholoma appendicu- 
latum var. flocculosum. It is larger than the type with the 
pileus more sulcate and covered with soon disappearing flocei. 
McCIatchie. Proc. S. Cal. Acad. Sci., 1, p. 381 has named a 
very floccose form of Hypholoma appendiculatum; Hypholoma 
flocculentum. It appears, to be the most extreme form that has 
been noted. The flocei form a thick coat and are somewhat persis¬ 
tent. It must be very similar to Berkeley and Broome’s var. 
lanatum which is said to be “a curious form, densely woolly 
when young, traces of the woolly coat remaining at the apex 
when the pileus is fully expanded.” 
Another form is Hypholoma. hololanigerum Atk. Ann. MVcol. 
YII p. 371. The plants grew on rotten wood and the whole 
sporophore was covered with long white squamules. The plants 
are small and may be nearer the Psilocybe pennata group. 
Still another form is Hypholoma fragile Pk. X. Y. State Mus. 
Bull. 131, p. 22 and PL Y. figs. 1-—-7. It is a small plant which 
the author places in the section flocculosa. Dr. Peck suggests! 
the resemblance to Hypholoma incertum and the illustrations 
vconfirm this. It is however reported as not hygrophanous. 
These floccose forms are due to the greater or less development 
uf the universal veil and their appearance is probably largely 
