Annual Report of the State Botanist 1892 - MykoWeb

Report of the State Botanist. 65
The specimens which 1 have referred to this species were
collected many years ago. I have not found any like them since.
They differ from Galera tener chiefly in their larger size and
darker color, both when moist and when dry. The species is
evidently a very rare one.
Galera sulcatipes Pk.
SULCATE-STEMMED GaLEKA.
(Thirty-fifth State Mus. Rep , p. 132.)
Pileus thin, ovate, conical or subcampanulate, hygrophanous
chestnut-colored and mostly striatulate on the margin when
moist, paler when dry ; lamellae ascending, subdistant, adnate,
whitish becoming ferruginous-cinnamon ; stem slender, straight
or fiexuous, equal, hollow, rather tenacious, striate-sulcate, silky,
floccose-pruinose toward the base, white ; spores elliptical,
ferruginous-cinnamon, .00025 to ,0003 in. long, .00016 broad.
Pileus 5 to 8 lines broad ; stem 1.5 to 3 in. long, about 1 line
thick.
Gregarious on a pile of buckwheat bran lying on the ground in
woods. Albany county. August.
The white and almost shining stem is striate and silky above,
pulverulent or floccose-pruinose toward the base where it generally
assumes a greenish-blue color if handled when moist. The pileus
fades in drying to subochraceous. The lamellae are sometimes
white on the edge. Found in 1881 but not detected since. A
rare species but very distinct in the character of its stem and
in its peculiar habitat.
Galera inculta Pk.
Rude Galeba.
(Forty -first State Mus. Rep., p. 69.)
Pileus thin, somewhat fragile, campanulate, then convex or
nearly plane, obtuse or rarely with a small umbo, hygrophanous,
cinnamon color and striatulate when most, buff color and atomate
when dry, sometimes minutely pitted or corrugated, rarely
rimose-squamulose ; lamellae broad, subdistant, ventricose,
adnexed, white crenulate on the edge, at first pallid, then pale-
stem straight or subflexuous, hollow, brittle, slightly
cinnamon ;
silky, reddish-brown, sometimes mealy or pruinose at the top and
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