Part 2, 1917} AGARICACEAE 83 
decurrent, very distant, rather broad, thin, pallid to salmon-colored, undulate and concolorous 
on the edges; spores subglobose, angular, apiculate, rose-colored, 7-9 u; stipe tapering down- 
ward, subconcolorous, darker below, glabrous, smooth, 1.5 cm. long, 2 mm. thick. 
Type collected on the ground in woods in the New York Botanical Garden, July 8, 1902, F. S. 
Earle 318 (herb. N. Y. Bot. Gard.). . 
DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the type locality. 
12. Eccilia pungens Murrill, sp. nov. 
Pileus convex, not fully expanding, deeply umbilicate, gregarious, 4-6 cm. broad; surface 
smooth, glabrous, hygrophanous, avellaneous, somewhat striate with darker lines, margin 
incurved, concolorous, at first entire, becoming conspicuously lobed or plicate with age; context 
thin, pallid, with a sweetish, pungent taste and a distinct odor of chloride of lime; lamellae 
short-decurrent, subdistant, arcuate or plane, many times inserted, white to salmon-colored, 
entire and concolorous on the edges; spores broadly ellipsoid, angular, apiculate, uniguttulate, 
rose-colored, 8-10 X 7; stipe equal, compressed, solid, smooth, glabrous, subconcolorous, 
4-5 cm. long, 4-5 mm. thick. 
Type collected in soil in damp deciduous woods in the New York Botanical Garden, August 
10, 1915, W. A. Murvrill (herb. N. Y. Bot. Gard.). 
DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the type locality. 
13. Eccilia Housei Murrill, sp. nov. 
Leptonia euchlora House, Bull. N. Y. State Mus. 188: 33. 1917. Not L. euchlora Quél. 1872. 
Pileus submembranous, campanulate, becoming deeply depressed at the center, ces- 
pitose, about 2 cm. broad; surface blackish with a fumosous tint, radiately furrowed and 
streaked with paler tints, minutely tawny-fibrillose and roughened but scarcely squamulose, 
margin somewhat irregular; context very thin, pallid; lamellae narrow, decurrent, rather 
distant, pallid or slightly yellowish when young, soon hecoming salmon-colored; spores ellip- 
soid, angular, obliquely apiculate, rose-colored, 9-11 X 6-7 4; stipe slender, hollow, grass- 
green, slightly fibrillose, 2-4 cm. long, 2-3 mm. thick. 
Type collected in damp clay soil in deciduous thickets at Green Lake near Kirkville, Onondaga 
County, New York, June 6, 1914, H. D. House 14.16 (herb. N. Y. State Mus.). 
DistR1BurIon: Northern New York. 
14. Eccilia fuliginosa Murrill, sp. nov. 
Pileus thin, convex-umbilicate, not expanding, gregarious, 2-2.5 cm. broad; surface 
squamulose, fuliginous, striate, the disk more densely squamulose and nearly black in dried 
specimens, margin entire, concolorous, incurved; lamellae short-decurrent, subdistant, rather 
broad, several times inserted, pallid to salmon-colored, fuliginous and floccose on the edges; 
spores ellipsoid, angular, apiculate, 8-10 X 6-7 »; stipe long and slender, cylindric, glabrous, 
concolorous, solid, 4-6 cm. long, reaching 2 mm. thick. 
Type collected on the ground in wet woods at West Park, New York, August 9, 1903, F. S. 
Earle 1838 (herb. N. Y. Bot. Gard.). . 
DIstTRIBUTION: Known only from the type locality. 
15. Eccilia atrides (Lasch) Quél. Champ. Jura Vosg..90. 1872. 
Agaricus atrides Lasch, Linnaea 4: 539. 1829. 
Pileus subfleshy-membranous, hemispheric to convex, becoming plane, deeply umbilicate, 
subgregarious, 2.5-3 cm. broad; surface substriate, silky-shining, black or gray, darker and 
squamulose toward the disk, margin striate; lamellae attenuate, subdecurrent, thin, at 
length denticulate, subcrowded, pallid, black on the edges; spores broadly ellipsoid, angular, 
obliquely apiculate, uniguttulate, rose-colored, 8-10 X 7-8 x; stipe subequal, hollow, sub- 
concolorous, finely black-punctate, especially at the apex, fibrillose at the base, 5-7 cm. long, 
2-4 mm. thick. 
Type Locality: Germany. ; . 
Hasrrat: In moist, shady places among mosses or ferns, sometimes on dead wood. 
DistatsuTIon: New England to North Carolina and west to Michigan; also in Europe. 
ILLUSTRATION: Quél. Champ. Jura Vosg. 1. 6, f. 3. 
