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34 NORTH AMERICAN FLORA [VOLUME 10
6. Cortinellus hirtellus (Peck) Murrill.
Tricholoma hirlelium Peck, Bull. N. Y. State Mus. 116: 38. 1907.
Pileus fleshy, thin, convex, subumbonate, solitary or cespitóse, 2.5-4 cm. broad; surface
pale-brown, dry, hairy, the hairs sometimes minutely fasciculate; context white, taste mild;
lamellae thin, narrow, close, slightly sinuate-adnexed, minutely floccose on the edges, yellowish-
white or pallid; spores subglobose, 6-7.5 X5-6 ¡J.\ stipe slender, equal, stuffed or hollow, with a
very small cavity, fibrillose or subsquamulose, concolorous or a little paler, 2.5-4 cm. broad,
4-6 mm. thick.
TYPE LOCALITY: Wading River, Suffolk County, New York.
HABITAT: On or about pine stumps.
DISTRIBUTION: New York, New Jersey, and Alabama.
ILLUSTRATIONS: Bull. N. Y. State Mus. 116: pi. 105, f. 1-5.
7. Cortinellus grandis (Peck) Murrill.
Tricholoma grande Peck, Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 44: 128. 1892,
Pileus thick, firm, hemispheric becoming convex, often irregular, frequently cespitóse,
10-12.5 cm. broad; surface dry, brownish-squamulose, somewhat silky-fibrillose toward the
margin, white, margin at first involute, pure-white; context grayish-white, taste farinaceous;
lamellae close, rounded behind, adnexed, somewhat lacerate, white; spores ellipsoid, 8.5-1 IX
6 ¡i\ stipe stout, solid, fibrillose, at first tapering upward, then equal or but slightly thickened
at the base, pure-white, 5-10 cm. long, 2.5-4 cm. thick.
TYPE LOCALITY: Cattaraugus County, New York.
HABITAT: Among fallen leaves in woods.
DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the type locality.
ILLUSTRATIONS: Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 44: pi. 3, f. 5-8.
8. Cortinellus multiformis (Schaeff.) Murrill.
Agaricus multiformis Schaeff. Fung. Bavar. 4: 9. 1774.
Agaricus terreus Schaeff. Fung. Bavar. 4: 28. 1774.
Agaricus argyraceus Bull. Herb. Fr. pi. 423, f. 1. 1788.
Tricholoma terreum Quel. Champ. Jura Vosg. 42. 1872.
Cortinellus terreus P. Karst. Hattsv. 1: 25. 1879.
Pileus fleshy, thin, soft, convex, campanulate, or nearly plane, obtuse or umbonate, at
times gregarious to cespitóse, 2.5-7.5 cm. broad; surface innately fibrillose or floccose-squamose,
cinereous-fuscous, grayish-brown, or mouse-colored; context white or whitish, sometimes with
a farinaceous odor; lamellae adnexed, subdistant, more or less eroded on the edges, white be-
coming cinereous; spores broadly ellipsoid, 6-7X4-5 p; stipe equal, varying from solid to
stuffed or hollow, fibrillose, white or whitish, 2.5-5 cm. long, 4-8 mm. thick.
TYPE LOCALITY: Bavaria.
HABITAT: On the ground in woods or groves.
DISTRIBUTION: Temperate regions of the world.
ILLUSTRATIONS: Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 49: pi. 47, f. 1-10; Baria, Champ. Nice pi. 36,
f. 1-3; Cooke, Brit. Fungi pi. 50 {83); GUI. Champ. Fr. pi. 73 (704); Hard, Mushrooms /. 55; Sow.
Engl. Fungi pi. 76.
EXSICCATI: Herpell, Präp. Hutpilze 6; Clements, Crypt. Form. Colo. 174; Ellis & Ev. Fungi
Columb. 1983; Ellis & Ev. N. Am. Fungi 2726; Krieger, Fungi Sax. 486.
9. Cortinellus subrufescens (Ellis & Ev.) Murrill.
Tricholoma subrufescens Ellis & Ev. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sei. Phila. 1893: 440. 1893.
Pileus fleshy, convex-plane, 4-5 cm. broad; surface pale with a reddish tint, the center
darker, innate-fibrillose, squamose, not viscid, margin thin; context white; lamellae hetero-
phyllous, rounded behind, subcrowded, flesh-colored with a reddish tint, 2-3 mm. broad;
spores hyaline, subglobose, 3.5 p; stipe attenuate above, subsquamulose, subconcolorous,
fibrous, becoming hollow, 8 cm. long, 1 cm. thick.
TYPE LOCALITY: New Jersey.
HABITAT: Mixed woods among fallen leaves.
DISTRIBUTION: New Jersey.