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taste of the dried plant is bitter rather than acrid. The taste of the 
fresh plant has not been proved by me. The abrupt truncate or 
disk-like base of the stem is not shown in the figures of M. peronatus. 
Clitopilus popinalis Fr. 
Woods. Gansevoort. July. The whole plant is of a grayish 
color except the mature lamellae which have a flesh-colored hue, 
and the base of the stem which is clothed with a white tomentum. 
It has a farinaceous odor. 
Leptonia subserrulata n. sp. 
Pileus thin, convex or campanulate, umbilicate, obscurely striate 
on the margin, grayish white, darker colored and squamulose in the 
umbilicus; lamellae thin, close, adnate, white at first, bluish black 
and minutely denticulate on the edge; stem slender, rather long, 
hollow, glabrous, whitish or pallid; spores irregular or angular; 
.0004 to .00045 ' m • long, .0003 broad, usually containing a single 
large nucleus. 
Pileus 8 to 15 lines broad; stem 2 to 3 in. long, about 1 line thick. 
Low damp ground in woods. Gansevoort. July. 
This species is closely allied to Leptonia serrulata , but differs from 
it in its paler and more campanulate pileus, its paler lamellae and 
paler glabrous stem which is wholly destitute of dots or punctate 
markings at the top. 
Pholiota lutea n. sp. 
Pileus fleshy, firm, convex, dry, slightly silky, sometimes minutely 
floccose-squamulose toward the center, buff yellow, often a little 
darker at the center, the thin incurved margin slightly surpassing 
the lamellae, flesh pale yellow, odor pleasant, taste bitter; lamellae 
thin, close, rounded behind, adnexed, pale yellow, becoming dark 
ferruginous with age; stem firm, solid, thickened at the base, fibril- 
lose, colored like the pileus, annulus slight, usually near the top of 
the stem; spores elliptic, ferruginous, .0003 in. long, .0002 broad. 
Pileus 2 to 4 in. broad; stem 2 to 3 in. long, 3 to 5 lines thick. 
Decaying wood and trunks of trees in woods. August. 
Allied to Pholiota spectabilis and P. villosus, but distinguished from 
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