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North American Flora: Agaricales, Agaricaceae (Vol. 10 ... - MykoWeb

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8 NORTH AMERICAN FLORA [VOTUMS <strong>10</strong><br />

6. Melanoleuca acris (Peck) Murrill.<br />

Tricholoma acris Peck, Bull. Torrey Club 24: 139. 1897.<br />

Pileus fleshy, but rathei thin, broadly convex to nearly plane, slightly depressed in the<br />

center, 4-6.5 cm. broad; surface dry, innately fibrillose, whitish or pale-gray, margin wavy;<br />

context white or whitish, taste acrid; lamellae close, adnexed, subventricose, white; spores<br />

subglobose, 5-6X4-5 p; stipe equal or slightly tapering downward, short, slightly fibrillose,<br />

stuffed or hollow, white, 2.5-5 cm. long, 6-<strong>10</strong> mm. thick.<br />

TYPE LOCALITY: Worcester, Massachusetts.<br />

HABITAT: Thin deciduous woods.<br />

DISTRIBUTION: New England to Virginia and west to the Rocky Mountains.<br />

7. Melanoleuca alblssima (Peck) Murrill.<br />

Agaricus (Clitocybe) albissimus Peck, Bull. Buffalo Soc. Nat. Sei. 1: 45. 1873.<br />

Agaricus (Tricholoma) alboides Peck, Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 32: 25. 1880.<br />

Agaricus {Clitocybe) patuloides Peck, Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 32: 25. 1880.<br />

Clitocybe subsimilis Peck, Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 41: 61. 1888.<br />

Tricholoma nobile Peck, Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 42: 113. 1889.<br />

Clitocybe piceina Peck, Bull. Torrey Club 31: 178. 1904.<br />

Pileus fleshy, tough, convex, becoming plane or depressed, obtuse, slender or robust,<br />

solitary to cespitóse, 5-<strong>10</strong> cm. broad; surface very dry, smooth, glabrous, white, sometimes<br />

yellowish and slightly pruinose on the disk, rarely wholly yellowish, margin at first involute;<br />

context white, odor often decided, taste acrid or bitter; lamellae emarginate with adecurrent<br />

tooth, crowded to subdistant, distinct, whitish, yellowish when bruised; spores subglobose to<br />

broadly ellipsoid, minutely asperulate, hyaline, 5-7 X4-6 /x; stipe solid, elastic, equal or tapering<br />

upward, externally fibrous, obsoletely pruinose at the apex, often tomentose at the base,<br />

white, 5-<strong>10</strong> cm. long, 8-16 mm.ithick.<br />

TYPE LOCALITY: Croghan, New York.<br />

HABITAT: In leaf-mold in coniferous or mixed woods.<br />

DISTRIBUTION: Canada to Virginia and west to Michigan.<br />

ILLUSTRATION: Hard, Mushrooms/. 52.<br />

EXSICCATI: Shear, N. Y. Fungi 5.<br />

8. Melanoleuca luteomaculans (Atk.) Murrill.<br />

Tricholoma luteomaculans Atk. Ann. Myc. 7: 376. 1909.<br />

Pileus convex to expanded, depressed, somewhat undulate, solitary, 5-7 cm. broad; surface<br />

white tinged with yellow, changing to sulfur-yellow when bruised, margin with short, distant,<br />

radiating furrows; context firm, taste rather unpleasant; lamellae emarginate, crowded, white<br />

becoming dingy; spores subglobose, smooth, granular, 4-5X3.5-4.5 p; stipe enlarged below,<br />

whitish tinged with yellow, floccose-scaly with sordid-yellow scales, 4-5 cm. long, about 1 cm.<br />

thick.<br />

TYPE LOCALITY: Enfield Gorge, Ithaca, New York.<br />

HABITAT: On the ground among leaves.<br />

DISTRIBUTION: New York and <strong>North</strong> Carolina.<br />

9. Melanoleuca silvática (Peck) Murrill.<br />

Tricholoma silmticum Peck, Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 42: 113. 1889.<br />

Pileus convex or nearly plane, subumbonate, small, well-formed, 2.5-4 cm. broad; surface<br />

dry, glabrous, whitish; margin decurved; context thin, white, with farinaceous taste but no<br />

odor; lamellae broad, ventricose, subdistant, adnexed, white, deeply sinuate; spores large,<br />

ellipsoid, 11-12.5X7.5/1; stipe equal or slightly tapering upward, glabrous or obscurely fibril-<br />

lose, slightly mealy or pruinose at the apex, solid, firm, 2.5-5 cm. long, 4-8 mm. thick.<br />

TYPE LOCALITY: <strong>North</strong> Elba, New York.<br />

HABITAT: Among mosses or fallen leaves in woods.<br />

DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the type locality.<br />

ILLUSTRATIONS: Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 42: pi. 2, f. 16-19; Bull. N. Y. State Mus. 67:<br />

Pi. 82, f. 1-6.

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