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6. Eccilia tenuipes Murrill, sp. nov. 
Pileus convex-umbilicate, regular in shape, gregarious, 1.5 cm. broad; surface glabrous, 
tan-colored, pale-chestnut in dried specimens, margin concolorous, entire, deeply striate; 
lamellae rather broad, ‘subcrowded, decurrent, pallid to salmon-colored, concolorous and 
entire on the edges; spores ellipsoid, angular, obliquely apiculate, rose-colored, 10-12.5 XK 6-8 4; 
stipe long and slender, tubular, equal, smooth, glabrous, concolorous, 6 cm. long, 1 mm. thick. 
‘Lype collected on the ground in oak woods at Bound Brook, New Jersey, July 6, 1903, F. S. 
Earle 1466 (herb. N. Y. Bot. Gard.). ; 
DistRIBUTION: Known only from the type locality. 
7. Eccilia unicolor Peck, Bull. Torrey Club 34: 99. 1907. 
Pileus thin, submembranous, conic or very convex, becoming expanded, umbilicate, 
1-2.5 em. broad; surface glabrous, silky, shining, hygrophanous, yellowish-brown and striatu- 
late on the margin when moist, becoming paler or brownish-orange on drying; lamellae un- 
equal, thin, narrow, crowded, arcuate, decurrent, sometimes serrate on the edges, concolorous; 
spores angular, uniguttulate, 8-12 X 6-8 yu; stipe externally cartilaginous, straight or flexuous, 
glabrous, shining, stuffed, pruinose at the apex, concolorous or a little paler, with a whitish, 
mycelioid tomentum at the base, 3-6 cm. long, 1-3 mm. thick. 
Typs LocaLity: Falmouth, Massachusetts. 
Hasirat: Gravelly soil in waste places. . 
DistRIBUTION: Known only from the type locality. 
8. Eccilia mordax Atk. Jour. Myc. 8: 113. 1902. 
Pileus convex, umbilicate, usually gregarious, 2-5 cm. broad; surface smooth, dull-reddish- 
brown or pale-chestnut-colored, hygrophanous, tough, rarely cracking radially, margin in- 
rolled; context thin, dirty-white, the taste at first not marked, but after 15 or 20 minutes leaving 
a burning sensation in the throat which often lasts 24 hours; lamellae dirty-flesh-colored, adnate 
to slightly decurrent, not crowded; spores ovoid, pale-flesh-colored, 6-7 X 4-5 4; stipe con- 
colorous, cartilaginous, tough, fistulose, smooth, often compressed, 5-7 cm. long, 3-5 mm. thick. 
Type Locatiry: McGowan’s woods, Ithaca, New York. 
Hapzrrat: On the ground. 
DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the type locality. 
9. Eccilia pentagonospora Atk. Jour. Myc. 8: 113. 1902. 
Pileus umbilicate to infundibuliform, very thin, gregarious, 0.5—-1.5 cm. broad; surface 
fibrous-striate, smooth or very minutely roughened, mouse-gray to light-gray; lamellae de- 
current, ascending, not very crowded, flesh-colored, 2-4 mm. broad; spores pink, subquadrate, 
prominently 4-S-angled, usually 5-angled, 6~10 » in diameter: stipe concolorous, white within, 
cylindric, even, solid, sometimes with delicate white threads at the base, 2-3 cm. long, 1~2 
mm. thick. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Ithaca, New York. 
Hasirat: Oa a lawn. 
DistRIsutTion:’ Known only from the type locality. 
10. Eccilia rhodocylicioides Atk. Jour. Myc. 8: 113. 1902. 
Pileus small, convex, umbilicate, gregarious or slightly cespitose, 5-12 mm. broad ; surface 
mouse-colored, finely floccose-scaly at the center, margin faintly striate, thin; lamellae arcuate, 
distant, decurrent, bristling with white cystidia under a lens, slightly. paler than the pileus 
and tinged with flesh-color; spores quadrate to subquadrate, 8~10 4; Stipe cartilaginous, 
hollow, concolorous except at the apex. where it is paler, 3-5 em. long, 1-2 mm. thick. 
TYPE LocALITy: McGowan’s woods, Ithaca, New York. 
Hasirat: On the ground. 
DistripuTIon: Known only from the type locality. 
11. Eccilia parvula Murrill, sp. nov. 
Pileus thin, umbilicate-expanded, solitary, 1 cm. broad; surface dry, 
. : : densely fibrillos 
uniformly grayish-brown, margin incurved, concolorous, s 2 
not striate; lamellae conspicuously 
