Annual Report of the State Botanist 1892 - MykoWeb

Report of the State Botanist. 55
Pholiota discolor Pk.
Ydir. minor. Small; pileus 6 to 10 lines broad, chestnut color
when young or moist ; stem about 1 line thick, at first clothed
with whitish fibrils. Among mosses about or on the base of
stumps. Shokan. September.
Galera teneroides Pk.
This species is not rare in the Adirondack woods. It often
grows on decaying wood and branches. The color, though
approaching that of G. tener, is more dull or broAvnish both
when moist and when dry. The moist pileus is sometimes
striatulate almost to the disk.
Agaricus silvicola Vltt.
The New York specimens heretofore referred to this species
differ in some respects from the European plant if we may rely
upon the published descriptions. The stem is quite constantly
abruptly bulbous at the base, and the annulus is usually double,
the lower or exterior one being of a floccose texture, smaller
and split iu a radiating manner as in that of A. arvensis.
The very young lamellai are also whitish as in that species and
wounds or bruises of the flesh are apt to become yellowish, all of
which indicate a closer affinity in our plant to A. arvensis than
to A. camj)ester. It seems to me, therefore, that greater scientific
accuracy Avill be attained by referring our ])lant to A. arve/isis'Sis
a var. abrvjytns, and considering it distinct from the European
A. .nlvicohi, which is described as having a simple annulus
and whicl] is figured as having the stem slightly and gradually
thickened at the base. The name air apt us will indicate the
character of the bulb in our plant. I have made trial of its
edible tjualities and find it very good eating, though scarcely as
highly flavored as the common mushroom.
Psilocybe squalidella Pk.
Yar. Gcespitosa. Densely ca3spitose; pilei often irregular from
mutual pressure, firm but flexible and elastic, pale-alutaceous or
watery-brown when moist, ochraceous or reddish-yellow when
dry ; stem subcartilaginous, somewhat fibrous, stuffed or hollow,
frequently wavy, reddish-brown or rufescent, })aler at the top,