Annual Report of the State Botanist 1892 - MykoWeb

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Report of the State Botanist.
rich lawns or pastures. It is often found growing on dung in
company with Panmolvs campannlatus. It varies much in size.
A small form, form wi;? or, occurs having the pileus hemispherical
and only three or four lines broad.
Yar. pilosella {Agaricus pilosellus Pers.), has both pileus and
stem clothed with a minute erect pubescence when moist. A
form is sometimes found in which the center of the pileus is
brown or blackish-brown.
Galera teneroides Pk.
WoOD-LOVlNG GaLEKA.
(Twenty-ninth State JIuseuin Report, p. 39.)
Pileus thin, campanulate or expanded, hygrophanous, brownishcinnamon
and striatulate when moist, paler when dry ; lamellie
narrow, close, yellowish-cinnamon ;
stem straight, slender, hollow,
colored like the pileus ; spores nearly elliptical, subluteus, .0003
to .00035 in. long, .00016 to .0002 broad.
Pileus 6 to 12 lines broad ; stem 1 to 2 in. long, about half a
line thick. Ground, dung and decaying wood and branches in
woods. Adirondack mountains and in Albany county. June to
September.
This species is closely related to Galera tener as may be inferred
from the name, but it is nevertheless distinct in its more brown
or smoky-tinted color, more expanded mature pileus, more narrow
lamellae and smaller paler spores.
Galera ovalis Fr.
Oval Galera.
(Hym. Europ., p. 268. Sylloge Vol. v, p. 863.)
Pileus somewhat membranaceous, oval or campanulate, hygro-
phanous, brownish-ferruginous and obscurely striatulate on the
margin when moist, paler and even when dry, fragile ; lamellae
nearly free, very broad, ventricose, ferruginous ; stem straight,
slender, hollow, slightly striate, colored nearly like the pileus;
spores elliptical, dark-ferruginous, .0004 to .0005 in. long, .00025
to .0003 broad.
Pileus 8 to 12 lines broad ; stem 3 to 4 in. long, about 1 line
thick.
Dung. Albany county. June.