REPORT OF THE STATE BOTANIST 
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the margin, ferruginous; stem equal, slightly fibrillose, hollow, red¬ 
dish-brown; spores ferruginous, .0003 to .0004 in. long, .0002 to 
.00024 broad. 
Pileus 1 to 2 in. broad; stem 2 to 3 in. long, 2 to 3 lines thick. 
Pastures. Albany county. November. 
This plant was found more than twenty-five years ago and has not 
since been detected. Its flavor is bitterish. The fibrils of the veil 
form a slight fibrillose annulus on the stem which forms a lodging- 
place for the spores and becomes stained by them. 
Flammula rigida Pk. 
Rigid Flammula. 
Mus. Rep. 50, p. 104. 
Pileus thin, rather firm and rigid, convex becoming nearly plane or 
centrally depressed, sometimes wavy on the margin, glabrous, 
hygrophanous, rusty-tawny or subferruginous when moist, buff or 
grayish-buff when dry, flesh concolorous; lamellae moderately close, 
adnate, creamy-white becoming rusty tan color or subferruginous; 
stem equal or nearly so, tough, slightly striate, colored like the 
pileus, with a compact white tomentum on the lower part or at the 
base; spores broadly elliptical, .0003 to .00035 in. long, .00016 to 
.0002 broad. 
Pileus 1 to 1.5 in. broad; stem 1 to 2 in. long, 1.5 to 3 lines thick. 
Chip dirt. Adirondack mountains. September. 
The plants are gregarious and by the mycelium they adhere closely 
to chips and fragments of wood from which they grow and which 
are usually pulled up with them when they are gathered. This is a 
smaller plant than the preceding one and has the dry pileus and 
shorter stem paler in color. 
Sapineae. 
Pileus not viscose; lamellae at first yellow or yellowish; veil almost 
none or fibrillose, not appendiculate; spores tawny or ochraceous. 
The species of this tribe grow especially on decaying wood of pine 
and other coniferous trees or on the ground about or under them. 
