94 NORTH AMERICAN FLORA [VoLumE 10 
lilac-black, margin entire, concolorous; context exceedingly thin; lamellae adnexed with a 
slight decurrent tooth, several times inserted, rather broad, ventricose, distant, entire on the 
edges, white to lilac or salmon-colored; spores ellipsoid, angular, apiculate, uniguttulate, 
9-10 X 6-7 p; stipe slender, equal, glabrous, cartilaginous, concolorous, whitish-mycelioid at 
the base, 4-5 cm. long, 2~3 mm. thick. 
Type collected on the ground among humus under fir trees in mixed woods at Corvallis, Oregon, 
November 6-11, 1911, W. A. Murrill 978 (herb. N. Y. Bot. Gard.). 
DISTRIRUTION: Oregon and California. 
35. Leptoniella fuliginosa Murrill, sp. nov. 
Pileus hemispheric, not expanding, regular in shape, gregarious, reaching 2.5 cm. broad; 
surface glabrous, striate, fuliginous, smooth and darker on the disk, margin entire, concolorous, 
inflexed; lamellae adnate, arcuate, subdistant, broad, pallid to salmon-colored, undulate and 
concolorous on the edges; spores broadly ellipsoid, angular, obliquely apiculate, uniguttulate, 
rose-colored, 8-9 < 6-7 ; stipe slender, subequal, smooth, glabrous, pale-avellaneous, solid, 
4 cm. long, 2-2.5 mm. thick. 
Type collected in soil among mosses on a low meadow in mixed woods at La Honda, near Palo 
Alto, California, November 25, 1911, W. A. Murrill & L. R. Abrams 1302 (herb. N. Y. Bot. Gard.). 
DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the type locality. 
36. Leptoniella nigra Murrill, sp. nov. 
Pileus rather firm, convex, not fully expanding, slightly umbilicate at times, gregarious, 
3-4 em. broad; surface black, smooth, glabrous, polished, sometimes lacerate-striate in older 
specimens, margin concolorous, incurved, entire to lacerate; lamellae rather distant, broad, 
adnate, grayish-murinous to salmon-colored, entire and concolorous on the edges; spores 
ellipsoid, angular, obliquely apiculate, uniguttulate, rose-colored, 12-14 X 7-9 y; stipe rather 
thick, cartilaginous, hollow, equal or slightly tapering upward, smooth, glabrous, plumbeous, 
whitish at the base, 4-6 cm. long, 4-6 mm. thick. 
Type collected on the bank of a stream in soil among mosses in mixed woods at La Honda, 
Send awe a California, November 25, 1911, W. A. Murrill & L. R. Abrams 1257 (herb. N. Y. 
ot. Gard.). 
DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the type locality. 
37. Leptoniella atrosquamosa Murrill, Mycologia 3: 272. 1911. 
Leptonia atrosquamosa Murrill, Mycologia 4: 332. 1912. 
Pileus broadly convex, slightly depressed, regular, solitary, 2 cm. broad; surface avellane- 
ous, striate, clothed with innate, imbricate, fuliginous scales which are upturned at the end, 
the depressed umbo being decorated with black tufted scales; lamellae adnate, narrow, distant, 
about three times inserted, the edges entire, concolorous; spores angular, 8-10 yu; stipe cylindric, 
equal, murinous, 3.5 cm. long, 2-3 mm. thick. 
‘Type Locality: Morce’s Gap, Jamaica. 
Hasirat: On dead wood. 
DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the type locality. 
38. Leptoniella miniata (Pat.) Murrill, Mycologia 3: 272. 1911. 
Leptonia miniata Pat. Bull. Soc. Myc. Fr. 16: 176. 1900. ; 
Pileus fleshy, convex, mamellate, about 5 cm. broad; surface glabrous, brilliant, pale- 
red when fresh, chestnut-red when dried, margin striate; lamellae unequal, adnate, broad, 
dull-red, powdered by the spores, which are angular, rosy, 10-13 #; Stipe long and slender, more 
or less radicate, concolorous, except at the base where it is orange, hollow, 8-10 cm. long, 3-5 
mm, thick. 
TYPE Locality: Guadeloupe. 
Hapirat: On decayed trunks of various trees. 
DISTRIBUTION: Guadeloupe. 
39. Leptoniella Earlei Murrill, Mycologia 3: 272. 1911. 
Lepionia Earlei Murrill, Mycologia 4: 332. 1912, 
Pileus convex, umbilicate, thin, solitary, 2 cm. broad; surface pale-tan, subfurfuraceous, 
the disk scaly, margin thin, not striate; lamellae adnexed, distant, broad, dirty-pink, hetero- 
