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or cream-colored becoming ferruginous or brownish-ferruginous 
with age, white and minutely denticulate on the edge; stem flexuose, 
equal or slightly thickened toward the base, hollow, fibrillose or 
sometimes squamulose below the annulus, pruinose or mealy above, 
pallid, the annulus membranous, white or whitish, radiately striate 
on the upper surface; spores narrowly elliptical, .0004 to .0005 in. 
long, .00024 to .00028 broad. 
Pileus 6 to 12 lines broad; stem 1 to 2 in. long, 1 to 2 lines thick. 
Ground among decaying chips. Adirondack mountains. Sep¬ 
tember. 
The fibrils of the lower part of the stem have a tawny hue. The 
species is closely related to P. togularis, from which it is separated 
because of the hygrophanous pileus and the adnexed lamellae. From 
P. blattaria the different color adnexed lamellae and larger spores sep¬ 
arate it. The peculiar upper surface of the annulus is similar to that 
indicated in the figure of P. togularis var. filaris, as given by Fries. 
Pholiota confragosa Fr. 
Decaying wood in woods. Adirondack mountains. September. 
This is apparently a variable species. Our specimens resemble 
more closely the long-stemmed form figured by Fries, but this form 
also sometimes has the slight but evanescent hairy floes or scales 
when young, although the figures do not show them. European 
authors do not agree in the characters ascribed to the spores of this 
species; one describing them as “ elliptic-oblong, ferruginous 8x4,” 
t. / 
another as “ subellipsoid or sphaeroid-ellipsoid, yellowish, 5-6x3-$ 
or 12x5/’ These can not all be correct, and it is probable that two or 
three species have been confused. In our plant the spores are really 
naviculoid or boat shaped. They are about .0003 in. long, and .00016 
or .0002 broad, according to the position they are in, being more 
narrow when viewed edgewise than when viewed flatwise. In color 
they are pale ferruginous or yellowish-ferruginous. P. unicolor, 
according to the description, has broader lamellae and longer spores. 
Flammula magna n. sp. 
Pileus fleshy, broadly convex, soft, dry, fibrillose and somewhat 
virgate, pale yellow or buff, the margin commonly becoming revo- 
