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NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 
Pileus 4 to 6 in. broad; stem 4 to 6 in. long, 8 to 12 lines thick. 
Thin mixed woods. Menands. August. 
The flavor of this mushroom is not at first disagreeable, but an 
unpleasant burning sensation is left in the mouth for a considerable 
time after tasting. It is therefore to be regarded with suspicion. 
Nolanea picea Kalchb . 
Pileus thin, varying from broadly conical to convex or nearly 
plane, often irregular from its crowded or caespitose mode of growth, 
even, covered with a grayish pruinosity, hygrophanous, blackish 
when moist, grayish-brown when dry, the thin even margin at first 
incurved and slightly tinged with red, extending beyond the lamellae; 
lamellae moderately close, rounded behind and slightly adnexed, 
often becoming ventricose with the expansion of the pileus, more or 
less serrate on the margin, whitish then flesh-colored; stem equal, 
often flexuose, stuffed or hollow, reddish-brown or blackish; spores 
narrowly elliptical, .0003 to .0004 in. long, .0002 broad. 
Pileus 8 to 24 lines broad; stem 1 to 1.5 in. long, 1 to 2 lines thick. 
Among chips. Adirondack mountains. September. 
This fungus has the fishy odor of such species as Nolanea nigripes 
and N. pisciodora , to which it is closely related, but from which it dif¬ 
fers in its glabrous or merely pruinose pileus and in its coloration. 
We have referred it to N. picea, although it differs in some minor par¬ 
ticulars from the description of that species. On this account we 
have recorded the description of our plant as made at the time of the 
collection of the specimens. It will be seen that there is no papilla 
on the pileus in our plant, yet this is given as one of the characters 
of the European species. Still the figures of it as given by Kalch- 
brenner himself and also by Gillet show no papilla, and for this reason 
especially we have the more confidently considered our plant as 
specifically the same. 
Pholiota rugosa n. sp. 
Pileus thin, broadly conical or campanulate becoming expanded 
and often umbonate, hygrophanous, yellowish-red or ferruginous 
and striatulate on the margin when moist, pale yellow or buff and 
commonly rugose when dry; lamellae close, adnexed, yellowish-white 
