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

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PART 1, 1914] AGARICACEAE 17<br />

48. Melanoleuca paeonia (Fries) Murrill.<br />

Agaricus paeonius Fries, Epicr. Myc. 42. 1838.<br />

Agaricus carneus Pers. Syn. Fung. 340. 1801. Not A. carneus Schaeff. 1774.<br />

Tricholoma carneum Gill. Champ. Fr. 115. 1876.<br />

Pileus subfleshy, convex to plane, 2-5 cm. broad; surface flesh-colored, silky to glabrous,<br />

margin floccose; lamellae rounded, free, ventricose, white; spores ellipsoid, 2.5 X 1.7M; stipe<br />

soft, fragile, subpulverulent at the apex, persistently red, hollow, 2-5 cm. long.<br />

TYPE LOCALITY: Sweden.<br />

HABITAT: Grassy or mossy places.<br />

DISTRIBUTION: New York; also in Europe.<br />

ILLUSTRATIONS: Bull. Herb. Fr. pi. 533, f. 1; Fries, Icon. pi. 40, f. 2.<br />

49. Melanoleuca microspora (Ellis) Murrill.<br />

Agaricus (Tricholoma) microsporus Ellis, Bull. Torrey Club 5: 45. 1874.<br />

Pileus fleshy, thin, 1-2 cm. broad; surface dull-reddish-purple, slightly rugose, with a<br />

glaucous bloom, subzonate on drying; lamellae deeply and narrowly sinuate, subconcolorous,<br />

pale-purple to reddish-yellow, scarcely crowded, 3 mm. broad; spores subglobose, 3-5 y.; stipe<br />

minutely pubescent, yellowish-pilose at the base, hollow, 2.5 cm. long, 2 mm. thick.<br />

TYPE LOCALITY: Newfield, New Jersey.<br />

HABITAT: In sphagnum or on rotten cedar stumps in a white cedar swamp.<br />

DISTRIBUTION: New Jersey.<br />

EXSICCATI: Ellis & Ev. N. Am. Fungi 2003.<br />

50. Melanoleuca ionides (Pers.) Murrill.<br />

Agaricus ionides Pers. Syn. Fung. 338. 1801.<br />

Tricholoma ionides Gill. Champ. Fr. 114. 1876.<br />

Pileus fleshy, campanulate to plane, at length depressed, reaching 5 cm. broad; surface<br />

expallent, smooth, watery-red becoming violet, alutaceous when dry, margin subsinuate;<br />

lamellae arcuate-adnate, whitish to yellowish, 6 mm. broad; spores ellipsoid, smooth, hyaline,<br />

6-7X3-5 n; stipe solid, attenuate upward, glabrous, rose-colored, stuffed, 5-7 cm. long, 4-6<br />

mm. thick.<br />

TYPE LOCALITY: France.<br />

HABITAT: Grassy ground.<br />

DISTRIBUTION: New York and Greenland; also in Europe.<br />

ILLUSTRATIONS: Bull. Herb. Fr. pi. 533, f. 3; Boudier, Ic. Myc. 1: pi. 24; Cooke, Brit. Fungi<br />

pi. 95a (JOJ).<br />

51. Melanoleuca maculatescens (Peck) Murrill.<br />

Tricholoma maculatescens Peck, Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 44: 150. 1891.<br />

Pileus compact, convex to expanded, obtuse, even, 4-7.5 cm. broad; surface slightly viscid<br />

when moist, reddish-brown, becoming rivulose and brown-spotted on drying, margin inflexed,<br />

exceeding the lamellae; context whitish, spongy; lamellae slightly emarginate, rather narrow,<br />

cinereous; spores oblong or subfusiform, pointed at the ends, uninucleate, 7.5X4//; stipe<br />

spongy-fleshy, equal, sometimes abruptly narrowed at the base, solid, stout, fibrillose, pallid<br />

or whitish, 5-7.5 cm. long, 12-18 mm. thick.<br />

TYPE LOCALITY: Ohio.<br />

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

DISTRIBUTION: Ohio.<br />

ILLUSTRATION: Hard, Mushrooms/. 59.<br />

52. Melanoleuca tricolor (Peck) Murrill.<br />

Tricholoma tricolor Peck, Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 41: 60. 1888.<br />

Pileus broadly convex or nearly plane, sometimes slightly depressed in the center, firm,<br />

5-<strong>10</strong> cm. broad; surface dry, obscurely striate on the margin, pale-alutaceous inclining to<br />

russet; context whitish; lamellae thin, narrow, close, adnexed, pale-yellow, becoming brown or<br />

purplish-brown in drying; spores broadly ellipsoid or subglobose, 7.5 y. long; stipe stout, short,<br />

firm, tapering upward from the thickened or subbulbous base, white, 5-7.5 cm. long, 12-24 mm.<br />

thick.<br />

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

HABITAT: Grounds in woods.<br />

DISTRIBUTION: New York.

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