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or somewhat flocculose-squamulose below, often striate at the top, 
whitish with a white mycelioid tomentum at the base; spores dark 
ferruginous, .00024 in. long, .00016 broad. 
Pileus 1.5 to 3 in. broad; stem 1.5 to 4 in. long, 2 to 5 lines thick. 
Decaying wood and ground among fallen leaves. Catskill and 
Adirondack mountains. 
Sometimes the pileus is slightly umbonate and its margin appen- 
diculate with the remains of the white floccose-fibrillose veil. The 
spots are due to the presence of more highly colored innate fibrils. 
The stem is often flexuous. It sometimes becomes a little brownish 
or ferruginous toward the base when old. The Adirondack speci¬ 
mens were found growing on decaying spruce wood. 
Flammula subfulva Pk. 
Dingy-tawny Flammula. 
Mus. Rep. 41, p. 68. 
Pileus convex, viscid, innately fibrillose, spotted toward the mar¬ 
gin with darker colored appressed scales, sordid-tawny, flesh grayish- 
white; lamellae close, adnate, becoming ferruginous; stem equal or 
slightly tapering upward, fibrillose, solid, whitish; spores brownish- 
ferruginous, elliptical, uninucleate, .00024 to .0003 in. long, .00016 
broad. 
Pileus 1.5 to 2.5 in. broad; stem 2 to 3 in. long, 2 to 4 lines thick. 
About the base of trees. Catskill mountains. September. 
The plant is more or less caespitose in its mode of growth. It has 
been found but once. It is so closely allied to the preceding species 
that it might easily be regarded as a mere variety of it. The differ¬ 
ences are found chiefly in the uniformly colored pileus and its gray¬ 
ish-white flesh. 
Flammula spumosa Ft . 
Frothy Flammula. 
Hym. Europ. p. 247. Syl. Fung. Vol. v. p. 817. 
Pileus fleshy, thin, convex or nearly plane, obtuse or umbonate, 
glabrous, viscose, pale yellow, tinged with reddish tawny or brown¬ 
ish hues in the center, flesh pale yellow or greenish-yellow; lamellae 
thin, close, adnate, pale yellow when young, becoming ferruginous; 
