Part 2, 1917} AGARICACEAE 125 
6-7 ws; stipe cylindric, equal, slightly twisted at times, whitish or avellaneous, pruinose or 
fibrillose, solid, 6-8 cm. long, 1 em. thick. 
Type collected on the ground in woods in the New York Botanical Garden, September 10, 
1912, Mary E. Eaton (herb. N. Y. Bot. Gard.). 
DistRisuTion: New Yock and Massachusetts. 
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58. Entoloma subcostatum Atk. Jour. Myc. 12: 236. 1906. 
Pileus convex to expanded, plane or subgibbous, not umbonate, irregular, repand, gre- 
garious or cespitose, 4-8 cm. broad ; surface subviscid when moist, often subvirgate with darker 
lines, dark-gray to hair-brown or olive-brown, margin incurved; context white, rather thin, 
very thin toward the margin; the odor somewhat of old meal or nutty, not pleasant, the taste 
similar; lamellae light-salmon-colored, becoming dull, broad, narrowed toward the margin 
of the pileus, deeply sinuate, usually rounded, adnexed, easily becoming free, the edges usually 
plane, sometimes interveined, sometimes costate; spores subglobose, pale-rose-colored, angular, 
8-10 » in diameter; stipe concolorous but paler, 6—8 cm. long, 1-1.5 em. thick. 
TYPE LocaLtty: Columbus. Ohio. 
Hasirat: On grassy ground. 
DistriBuTION: Known only from the type locality. 
ILLUSTRATIONS: Hard, Mushr. f. 198; Jour. Myc. 12: pl. 92. 
59. Entoloma ferruginans Peck, Bull. Torrey Club 22: 200. 1895. 
Pileus fleshy, convex, obtuse or umbonate, often irregular, 5-10 cm. broad; surface hygro- 
phanous, glabrous, shining, finely striate at times, gray or lead-colored to almost black; con- 
text whitish, fibrous and colored at the surface, the odor and taste farinaceous in young plants, 
at length nauseating; lamellae 8-14 mm. broad, adnexed, easily splitting transversely, sub- 
crowded, grayish-salmon, becoming clay-colored; spores subglobose, irregular or angular, 
7.5-10 » long; stipe solid, glabrous, white to subconcolorous, blunt at the base or sometimes 
attenuate and radicate, 7.5—10 cm. long, 1-3 em. thick. 
Tyre Locality: Pasadena, California. 
Hasrrat: Under oak trees. 
DIstRIBUTION: California. 
60. Entoloma subsinyatum Murrill, sp. nov. 
Pileus thick, fleshy, convex to subexpanded, umbonate, cespitose, reaching 13 cm. broad; 
surface slightly viscid when moist, smooth, white with a yellowish tint, margin entire, white, 
not striate; context thick, white; lamellae emarginate, rounded behind, broad, rather crowded, 
white to salmon-colored; spores globose, decidedly angular, apiculate, rose-colored, copious, 
7-8 yw; stipe smooth, glabrous or slightly fibrillose, shining, concolorous, solid or stuffed, equal, 
except at the bulbous base, white within, 15 cm. long, 3 cm. thick. 
Type collected in leaf-mold in rich woods at Bar Harbor, Maine, August 17, 1901, V. S. White 
118 (herb. N. Y. Bot. Gard.). . 
DIstTRIBUTION: Vicinity of Bar Harbor, Maine. 
61. Entoloma grande Peck, Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 50: 101. 
1897. — 
Pileus fleshy, thin toward the margin, convex, becoming nearly plane, generally umbo- 
nate, subcespitose, 10-15 cm. broad; sugface usually centrally rugosely wrinkled, moist in 
wet weather, glabrous, yellowish-white, becoming brownish or grayish-brown; context white, 
the odor and flavor farinaceous; lamellae broad, subdistant, slightly adnexed, becoming free 
or nearly so, often wavy or eroded on the edges, whitish, becoming pinkish; spores subglobose, 
angular, 7.5-10 » in diameter; stipe equal, solid, slightly fibrous externally, mealy at the apex, 
white, 10-15 cm. long, 1.5-2.5 cm. thick. 
Type Locality: Menands, New York. 
Hasitat: In woods. 
DISTRIBUTION: New York. 
IuLustRaTIoN: Bull. N. Y. State Mus. 139: pi. 119. 
