REPORT OF THE STATE BOTANIST 
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Coprinus plicatilis Fr. 
Chip dirt, about an old lumber camp, Township 24, Franklin 
county. September. 
The lamellae sometimes show a whitish edge and whitish dots on 
the sides. These are due to projecting cells of cystida. There is a 
sterile form in which the pileus is paler than in the fertile form, and 
the lamellae are persistently whitish. The lamellae are free and some¬ 
times the free space about the stem ruptures in such a way as to give 
them the appearance of being attached to a free collar. The spores 
are broadly ovate and compressed, so that the transverse diameter is 
greater when the spore lies flat than when it lies on its edge. They 
are .00045 t° .0005 in. long, .0003 to .0004 broad. 
Cantharellus aurantiacus pallidus Pk. 
Specimens of this variety were found growing from the dead trunk 
of a standing pine tree. The stem in some instances was eccentric. 
The yellowish pileus sometimes has the margin almost white. The 
lamellae are frequently crisped or wavy. 
Cantharellus cinereus bicolor n. var. 
Pileus and stem pale cinereous or grayish; hymenium yellowish, 
its folds very narrow. Menands. August. 
Lenzites betulina rufozonata n. var. 
Pileus brown, grayish-brown or tawny-brown, with one or more 
reddish subglabrous zones. Ulster and Saratoga counties. Septem¬ 
ber and October. 
Russula Marias Pk. 
This fungus appeared in.considerable abundance the past sum¬ 
mer near Albany and at Port Jefferson. It is well marked by the 
pruinose appearance of its pileus and the minute reddish or purplish 
granules which when wet cause a stain upon any white surface or 
paper which may lie in contact with the pileus. The margin is even, 
but sometimes becomes slightly striate in old age. The flesh is white, 
but is often slightly red or pinkish under the cuticle, which is separ¬ 
able, at least on the margin. The lamellae are entire and the inter- 
