Annual Report of the State Botanist 1892 - MykoWeb

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Report of the State Botanist.
patches of this variety were found near Shokan. The plants
"were growing on the ground under hemlock trees, Tsuga Cana-
densis^ and were generally c^espitose. There were scores of these
tufts and in all, the plants had bulbous stems. Ihis is the direct
counterpart to var. radicaia, in which the stem ends below in a
long root-like point which penetrates the earth deeply, and
resembles the tap-root of CoUyhia radicata. Varieties hscura
flava and glahra of Gillet all occur in our State, and to these may
be added also var. albida Pk. in which the pileus is white or
whitish. I have also received f r< )m I
)r. Taylor of "Washington,
D. C, and from Dr. Jelliffe of Brooklyn, a densely cgespitose,
slender-stemmed form with no annulus, it being evanescent or
entirely wanting This I call var. ex.annulata. It is scarcely
distinguishable from Clitocybe aquatica Banning, and Clitocyhe
mona