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often geniculate at the base and about two feet tall. The lower- 
sheaths are hairy or downy, and the upper surface of the cauline' 
leaves are minutely hairy along the veins. The basal leaves are invo¬ 
lute and eight to ten inches long. The habitat is so peculiar that I 
suspect the plants are indigenous in this locality. They certainly 
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seem to me to be specifically distinct from Festuca ovina , to which, in 
the Manual, this species is added as a variety. The plants have no 
running rootstocks. 
Elymus striatus Willd. 
Dry rocky woods. Menands and Cedar Hill, Albany county. 
July. Our plants belong to the variety villosus Gray, Elymus villosus 
Muhl. of the New York Flora. 
Tricholoma terreum fragrans Pk. 
Poughkeepsie. October. H. W. Barratt. Mr. Barratt writes that 
many hundred specimens of this mushroom grew in a patch about 
twenty feet square, yet not as many as in the fall of 1894. There 
were none in 1895. He regards it as a valuable mushroom on account 
of its late appearing, its freedom from insect attack, its durability and 
fine flavor. It is especially good roasted and eaten on dry buttered 
toast or on milk toast. In his opinion many mushrooms are better 
roasted than cooked in other ways. 
Clitocybe vilescens Pk. 
A pale form of this species grows on sandy soil, in which the 
pileus is smoky white, but it becomes grayish-brown in drying. The 
mycelium binds together a mass of sand, so that when the plant is 
taken up carefully a little ball of sandy soil adheres to the base of the 
stem. The stem is sometimes pruinose. The flavor is mild and 
agreeable. 
Clitocybe amethystina Bolt. 
This fungus has commonly been united with C. laccata as a variety, 
though sometimes the remark is added that perhaps it is a distinct 
species. So far as I have observed it, its colors constitute the chief 
difference between the two, but these are very constant. I have 
seen no connecting forms. C. laccata has been made the type of a new 
