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like the pileus; spores tawny-brown, elliptical, even, .0004 to .0005 in. 
long, .0002 to .00025 broad. 
Pileus 8 to 12 lines broad; stem 1 to 1.5 in. long, 1 to 2 lines thick. 
Clay soil. Menands. July. This plant resembles Inocybe ochracea, 
from which it may be separated by its more highly colored squamu- 
lose stem and its larger spores. It belongs to the tribe Squarrosae. 
Cortinarius nitidus Fr. 
Swampy woods. Gansevoort. August. 
Paxillus Curtisii Berk . 
Decaying pine wood and stumps. Mechanicville and Round 
Lake. September and October. The description of this species 
appears to have been omitted from Saccardo’s Sylloge Fungorum. It 
resembles Paxillus panuoides in size and general habit, but it differs 
from that species very decidedly in its orange-colored narrow lam¬ 
ellae, which are more wavy or crisped and more branched and con¬ 
nected. Sometimes they anastomose throughout their whole length, 
sometimes they are forked near the margin of the pileus and abund¬ 
antly crisped and connected toward the base. The spores are minute, 
.00016 in. long, .00008 broad. The color of the pileus in the typical 
form is said to be sulphur-yellow and the substance tawny. In our 
specimens the pileus is commonly tawny and the flesh yellow, just 
the reverse of the characters ascribed in the type. The pileus is apt 
to become blackish in drying, either wholly or in part, and the plant 
emits a peculiar strong odor, which it retains for a long time even in 
the dried state. 
Stropharia siccipes Karst. 
On dung in pasture. Jordanville, Herkiner county. June. 
This dung-inhabiting mushroom is related to Stropharia stcr cor aria 
and S. semiglobata, but it differs from both in its dry flocculose and 
minutely fibrillose stem. The veil is white and often adheres in frag¬ 
ments to the margin of the pileus, thereby making an approach to the 
genus Hypholoma. In such cases the annulus is very slight or wholly 
wanting. The stem is stuffed with a white cottony pith, but it some¬ 
times becomes hollow with age. The pileus is viscid when moist 
and quite variable in color. 
