18 NORTH AMERICAN FLORA [Voujm* 10 



53. Melanoleuca Earleae Murrill, sp. nov. 



Pileus very large, thick, fleshy, gregarious, reaching 12 cm. broad; surface slightly viscid 

 when moist, smooth, glabrous, pale-rosy-avellaneous becoming brownish when injured, margin 

 incurved, silky- tomentose ; lamellae deeply sinuate, broad, crowded, white tinged with rose, 

 becoming fulvous with age after drying; spores broadly ellipsoid, smooth, hyaline, granular, 

 7-8X6-7/*; stipe very thick and heavy, somewhat bulbous, concolorous, becoming glabrous, 

 solid, about 7 cm. long, 3-4 cm. thick. 



Type collected in pine woods under pine needles near Auburn, Alabama, November 2, 1899, 

 Mrs. F. S. Earle. 



Distribution: Known only from the type locality. 



54. Melanoleuca rimosa (Peck) Murrill. 



Tricholoma rimosum Peck, Bull. N. Y. State Mus. 10: 947. 1902. 



Pileus fleshy, convex to nearly plane, 2.5-4 cm. broad; surface watery-brown and shining, 

 paler when dry, hygrophanous, margin often splitting; flesh concolorous when moist, whitish 

 when dry, taste farinaceous; lamellae rounded behind, adnexed, very close, thin, narrow, edges 

 uneven, whitish or subcinereous ; spores ellipsoid, 7.5-8.7X4— 5 \x ; stipe nearly equal, silky- 

 fibrillose, whitish, hollow, 2.5-5 cm. long, 3-5 mm. thick. 



Type locality: Bolton, New York. 



Habitat: In woods. 



Distribution: Known only from the type locality. 



55. Melanoleuca submaculata (Peck) Murrill. 



Tricholoma submaculatum Peck, Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 46: 102. 1894. 



Pileus convex to subplane, the center depressed, 2.5-5 cm. broad; surface brownish, dark- 

 spotted, glabrous; context white; lamellae crowded, thin, white, orange when bruised; spores 

 subglobose, 4-5X4/*; stipe silky-fibrillose, white, the base often decumbent, solid, 2.5-3.5 cm. 

 long, 6-10 mm. thick. 



Type locality: Shokan, New York. 

 Habitat: Margin of woods. 

 Distribution: New York. 



56. Melanoleuca eduriformis Murrill, sp. nov. 



Pileus rather thin, becoming expanded or slightly depressed, gregarious to subcespitose, 

 reaching 10 cm. broad; surface smooth, glabrous, polished, hygrophanous when wet, not viscid, 

 isabelline to fulvous, scarcely darker at the center, margin concolorous, somewhat lobed; 

 context white, with fragrant odor and very pleasant, mealy to nutty flavor; lamellae sinuate, 

 rather narrow, crowded, white, unchanging; spores ellipsoid, smooth, hyaline, 5-6X2-3 fi; 

 stipe larger above or below, rather irregular, pale-yellowish, white at the apex, smooth, glabrous, 

 hollow, 8 cm. long, 1.5-2 cm. thick. 



Type collected on the ground in leaf -mold by the Bronx River in the New York Botanical Garden, 

 August 29, 1911, W. A. Murrill. 



Distribution: Known only froiu the type locality. 



57. Melanoleuca lugubris (Peck) Murrill. 



Tricholoma lugubre Peck, Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 49: 16. 1896. 



Pileus convex, often irregular or repand, usually cespitose, 4-8 cm. broad; surface moist, 

 glabrous, smoky-brown or grayish-brown, margin involute; context white; lamellae almost 

 free, close, narrow, whitish; spores globose, 6 n; stipe short, glabrous, white, solid. 



Type locality: Deans Mills, New York. 

 Habitat: Under hemlocks. 

 Distribution: New York. 



58. Melanoleuca niveipes (Peck) Murrill. 



Tricholoma niveipes Peck, Bull. Torrey Club 29: 69. 1902. 



Pileus hemispheric to subplane, 5-12 cm. broad; surface dark-brown or grayish-brown, 

 dry, innate-fibrillose, almost virgate; context white; lamellae sinuate, close, rather narrow, 



