REPORT OF THE STATE BOTANIST 
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Damp vegetable mold or much decayed wood under basswood 
trees. Portage. June. 
When mature the pileus becomes perforated in the center and soon 
splits into three to five, commonly four, segments, the divisions 
extending a short distance down the stem, allowing the parts of the 
pileus to droop on the recurved upper parts of the stem. This re¬ 
markable feature of the species has suggested the specific name. The 
plant is referable to the tribe Tomentosi, but the pileus soon becomes 
glabrous. The veil is whitish or slightly yellowish. The spores 
appear at first to be brownish-black, but they become black after a 
short exposure. 
Psathyrella hirta n. sp. 
Pileus thin, hemispherical or convex, adorned when young with 
erect or spreading tufts of white, easily detersible and quickly evan¬ 
escent hairs, hygrophanous, brown or reddish-brown and slightly 
striatulate when moist, pale grayish-brown or dingy whitish when 
dry, flesh subconcolorous; lamellae broad, moderately close, adnate 
and often furnished with a decurrent tooth, at first pallid, becoming 
blackish-brown or black; stem flexuose, squamose, hollow, shining, 
white; spores elliptical, black, .0005 to .00055 ' m - long, .00025 to 
.0003 broad. 
Subcaespitose; pileus 4 to 6 lines broad; stem 1 to 2 in. long 1 to 
1.5 lines thick. 
Dung or dungy ground in shaded places. Adirondack mountains. 
July. 
The species has some points of similarity to Psathyra gossypina and 
P. pennata, but its adnate lamellae and black spores distinguish it from 
both. The hairs of the pileus are coarse and vanish so easily that 
they are preserved with difficulty in the dried specimens. 
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Boletus auripes n. sp. 
Pileus convex, subglabrous, yellowish-brown, sometimes cracking 
in areas when old, flesh yellow, fading to whitish with age; tubes 
nearly plane, their mouths small, subrotund, at first stuffed, yellow; 
stem nearly equal, solid, even or slightly reticulated at the top, 
bright yellow, a little paler within; spores ochraceous-brown tinged 
with green, .0005 in. long, .0002 broad. 
