North American Flora: Agaricales, Agaricaceae (Vol. 10 ... - MykoWeb
North American Flora: Agaricales, Agaricaceae (Vol. 10 ... - MykoWeb
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PART 1, 1914] AGARICACEAE 19<br />
snow-white; spores oblong, 7-8X3 n; stipe equal or subequal, snow-white, solid or stuffed,<br />
5-7 cm. long, 6-12 mm. thick.<br />
TYPE LOCALITY: South Yarmouth, Massachusetts.<br />
HABITAT: Sandy soil under pines.<br />
DISTRIBUTION: Massachusetts.<br />
59. Melanoleuca gravis (Peck) Murrill.<br />
Tricholoma grave Peck, Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 43: 63. 1890.<br />
Pileus at first hemispheric to convex, compact, 12.5-20 cm. broad; surface glabrous, gray-<br />
ish-tawny and somewhat spotted when moist, paler when dry, margin paler, irregular, involute,<br />
covered with a minute, close, grayish-white tomentum or silkiness; context grayish-white;<br />
lamellae subdistant, rounded behind or sinuate-adnexed, at first whitish, then pale-ochraceous<br />
or tawny; spores broadly ellipsoid, 7.5X5 M ; stipe stout, compact, solid, subsquamulose, gray-<br />
ish-white, penetrating the soil deeply, <strong>10</strong> cm. long, 2.5-4 cm. thick.<br />
TYPE LOCALITY: Manor, New York.<br />
HABITAT: Mixed woods of pine and oak.<br />
DISTRIBUTION: <strong>North</strong>eastern United States.<br />
ILLUSTRATIONS: Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 43: pi. 1, f. 5-8.<br />
60. Melanoleuca fuliginea (Peck) Murrill.<br />
Tricholoma fuligineum Peck, Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 41: 60. 1888.<br />
Pileus convex or nearly plane, obtuse, often irregular, 2.5-6.5 cm. broad; surface dry,<br />
minutely squamulose, sooty-brown; context grayish, odor and taste farinaceous; lamellae<br />
subdistant, uneven on the edges, cinereous, becoming blackish on drying; spores oblong-ellipsoid,<br />
7.5 X4 p; stipe short, solid, equal, glabrous, cinereous, 2.5-4 cm. long, 6-<strong>10</strong> mm. thick.<br />
TYPE LOCALITY: Catskill Mountains, New York.<br />
HABITAT: Among mosses and open places.<br />
DISTRIBUTION: New York.<br />
61. Melanoleuca compressipes Murrill, sp. nov.<br />
Pileus convex to expanded, gregarious, 4r8 cm. broad; surface smooth, hygrophanous,<br />
moist, not viscid, dark-umber-brown becoming lighter on drying, usually darker on the disk,<br />
margin thin, entire; context thin, grayish or watery-brown, mild, without distinct odor; lamellae<br />
obscurely sinuate to nearly adnate, subcrowded, rather narrow, unequal, sordid-white becoming<br />
cinereous and at length dark-brown, not changing color when cut or bruised; spores subglobose,<br />
smooth, hyaline, 6-7.5 p; stipe equal or tapering upward, often compressed, subglabrous, dirty-<br />
white, hollow or stuffed, 3-5 cm. long, 5-<strong>10</strong> mm. thick.<br />
Type collected on the ground in mixed woods near a small stream, at Auburn, Alabama, Decem-<br />
ber 19, 1900, Mrs. F. S. Earle. Also collected in pine woods and in mixed woods in the same vicinity,<br />
January 22, 1900, and January 1, 1901, Mrs. F. S. Earle.<br />
DISTRIBUTION: Alabama.<br />
62. Melanoleuca inocybiformis Murrill.<br />
Agaricus (.Tricholoma) Hebeloma Peck, Bull. Buffalo Soc. Nat. Sei. 1: 45. 1873. Not A. Hebeloma<br />
Seer. 1833.<br />
Pileus thin, broadly conic or subcampanulate, obtuse, <strong>10</strong> mm. broad; surface hygrophanous,<br />
brown with a darker disk and striatulate on the margin when moist, grayish when dry; lamellae<br />
broad, rounded behind and deeply emarginate, adnexed, yellowish; spores 6X4 ¡i; stipe equal,<br />
hollow, glabrous, pallid, 2.5 cm. long, 2 mm. thick.<br />
TYPE LOCALITY: Worcester, New York.<br />
HABITAT: On the ground in woods.<br />
DISTRIBUTION: New York.<br />
63. Melanoleuca subargillacea Murrill, sp. nov.<br />
Pileus fleshy, thick, irregular, convex to expanded, solitary or cespitóse, 4-<strong>10</strong> cm. broad;<br />
surface moist, shining, smooth, glabrous, not viscid, pale-argillaceous, margin even, white;<br />
context thin, white, brittle, odor none except when drying, taste mawkish and disagreeable;<br />
lamellae rather broad, becoming ventricose, crowded, sinuate, white, unchanging; spores ellip-