Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Galerula hemisphaerica Murrill, sp. nov
Pileus hemispheric, not expanding, neither umbonate nor depressed, solitary, 1 cm. broad; surface smooth, dry, glabrous, isabelline, margin entire, concolorous, striate, straight and appressed when young; lamellae adnate, ventricose, subcrowded, ochraceous-ferruginous, becoming darker, whitish-pruinose on the edges; spores ellipsoid, smooth, ferruginous under the microscope, 8-9 X 4-5 fi; stipe tapering upward, slender, smooth, glabrous, white, 3 cm. long, 1-2 mm. thick.
Type collected in grass on a lawn at Lake Placid, Adirondack Moun tains, New York, July 1729, 1912, W. A. & Edna L. Murrill 145 (herb. N. Y. Bot. Gard.). Distribution : Known only from the type locality.
- bibliographic citation
- William Alphonso Murrill. 1917. (AGARICALES); AGARICACEAE (pars); AGARICEAE (pars). North American flora. vol 10(3). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
