iy ee Peck: NEw SPECIES OF FUNGI 
Lentinus Americanus 
Pileus thin, convex, nearly plane, centrally depressed or 
subinfundibuliform, glabrous, irregular or lobed on the margin, 
pallid; lamellae moderately close, dentate and lacerate on the 
edge, slightly decurrent, whitish ; stem short, nearly equal, even, 
solid, brown with a reddish-brown strigose villosity toward the 
base ; spores broadly elliptic or subglobose, 6 » long, 5-6 broad. 
Pileus 2-2.5 cm. broad ; stem 1-1.5 cm. long, 2-4 mm. thick. 
Growing singly or in tufts, rarely on rotten logs, commonly 
on the ground in moist shady thickets. Volmer, Idaho. L. F. 
Henderson. he 
The stem is sometimes eccentric but it is not at all sulcate. 
The plants have a delicate odor resembling that of apricots and an ~ 
agreeable taste. 
Entoloma nigricans 
Pileus thin, convex, becoming irregularly expanded and cet- — 
trally depressed, innately silky fibrillose, shining, dark gray OF 
blackish, the cuticle often radiately cracking, inodorous ; lamellae 
broad, subdistant, sinuate, adnate, salmon color ; stem equal, silky 
fibrillose, at first solid, becoming hollow, shining, white streake@ | 
with black, sometimes scurfy at the. top; spores salmon color, 
angular, uninucleate, 8-12 p long, nearly as broad. i 
Pileus 2.5—4 cm. broad; stem 2.5—5 cm. long, 4-8 mm. thick. 
Woods in low ground. Near St. Louis, Mo. October. N. M a 
Glatfeldter. In the dried specimens the margin of the pileus ro 
somewhat striate or sulcate, but the pileus is not striate when fresh 
nor is it hygrophanous. 
Locellina Starnesii 
Pileus fleshy but thin, convex or nearly plané, somewhat ait , 
bonate, white with a sepia brown center from which radiate brow? : 
streaks or lines intermingled with minute brown spots OF be 
flesh white ; lamellae narrow, close, free, concealed when young 
by the membranaceous white veil, pink or rosy tinted, becouuTt 
cinereous brown with age; stem slender, often curved, sometim® 
straight, stuffed with a small pith, white, ending below in 4 ee 2 
like bulb; annulus superior, often torn and adhering partly te the 
stem and partly to the margin of the pileus ; spores brown, ellipti 
5-6 » long, 4 y broad. ss 
Pileus 2.5—5 cm. broad; stem 2.5—5 cm. long, about 4 mip 
thick. | 
