Protean, slender, very variable in stature, growing in troops. b. More slender, but densely gregarious, with the wholly pallid smooth stem thinner, often flexuous. This form is exactly A. mesodactylus Berk. c. Very small. Pileus 1 in. Stem 1 in. or a little more, scarcely 1 line thick, very flexuous, becoming rust-color. Stevenson.
Spores elliptical, 8×3.5µ Massee.
New Jersey, on decayed chips mixed with dirt. May, 1898. E.B. Sterling.
Not previously reported.
The specimens sent were tested and found to be of good quality.
** Phæ´oti. Spores fuscous—ferruginous (dingy rust-color).
P. du´ra Bolt.—durus, hard. Pileus 3 in. and more broad, tawny, tan-color, becoming dingy brown, fleshy, somewhat compact, convexo-plane, obtuse, smooth, then cracked into patches, margin even. Stem commonly curt, 2 in. long, about ½ in. thick, stuffed, even solid, hard, becoming silky-even, then longitudinally cracked when dry, thickened at the apex, mealy and more than usually widened into the pileus, varying ventricose and irregularly-shaped. Ring torn. Gills adnate, striato-decurrent with a tooth, ventricose, ½ in. broad, livid then dingy rust-color.
The stem is abundantly furnished with fibrillose rootlets at the base. Although very closely allied to A. præcox, it is readily distinguished by its rust-color or brown-rust spores. Stevenson.
Spores 9×5µ W.G.S.; 8–9×5–6µ Massee.
Haddonfield, N.J. June to October. Florist’s garden, McIlvaine.