Annual Report of the State Botanist 1892 - MykoWeb

Report of the State Botanist. 63
narrow or linear, crowded, ascending, nekrly free, pale-cinnamon
or tawny-ferruginous; stem straight, slender, fragile, hollow,
ininntely striate, sprinkled with minute mealy particles or clothed
with a minute villosity, white ; spores elliptical, ferruginous,
.0005 to .00055 in. long, .0003 to .00035 broad.
Pileus 6 to 12 lines broad ; stem 2 to 3 in. long, scarcely 1 line
thick.
Dung or i-ich grassy ground. Albany and Rensselaer counties.
June to September.
This may be separated from the next following species by its
more elongated narrowly conical pileus distinctly striate on the
niargin and by its narrower linear lamella\ The striations are
fine and close and often reach half way to the center of the pileus.
In our specimens they are distinct even in the dried plant. We
have seen no specimens having the pileus as dark colored as in
the Friesian figure of the moist plant, but many of our American
agarics are paler or have paler forms than tlie European figures
indicate for the same species. The hygi'ophanous character of
the pileus is less clearly shown than in GaUra tener. As in that
species, there are forms in which both pileus and stem are clothed
with a minute downy pubescence. When partly dry the pileus
feels sticky when i^rcssed between the thumb and fingers.
Galera tener Schaff.
Tender Galeea.
(Hym. Europ., p. 267. Sylloge Vol. v, p. 860.)
Pileus thin, conical broadly and obtusely conical or campanu-
late, hygrophanous, pale-ferruginous or tawny-cinnamon color
and striatulate when moist, whitish or creamy-yellow when dry,
often sprinkled with shining atoms ;
ascending, adnate, cinnamon color ;
lamelhe broad, rather close,
stem straight, slender, fragile,
hollow, somewhat shining, commonly finely striate, colored like
the pileus ;
spores elliptical, dark ferruginous, almost rubiginous,
.0005 to .00005 in. long, .0003 to .0004 broad.
Pileus 4 to 10 lines broad ; stem 1.5 to 3 in. long, scarcely 1
line thick.
Dung and rich grassy ground. Common. June to September.
This is our most common species of Galera. It sometimes
grows in great abundance where cattle have been yarded and in