132 NORTH AMERICAN FLORA [VoLumez 10 
striate, slightly lacerate with age; lamellae free, ventricose, broad, crowded, white to salmon- 
colored, entire and concolorous on the edges; spores oblong-ellipsoid, smooth, rose-colored, 
7-8.5 X 4-6 yu; cystidia bifid or trifid; stipe cylindric, subequal, smooth, glabrous, white, 
hollow, 3.5 cm. long, 3 mm. thick. 
Type collected on a mossy log at Redding, Connecticut, July 20, 1902, F. S. Earle 524 (herb. 
N. Y. Bot. Gard.). 
DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the type locality. 
21. Pluteus leoninus (Schaeff.) Quél. Champ. Jura Vosg. 82. 1872. 
Agaricus leoninus Schaeff. Fung. Bavar. 4: Ind. 21. 1774. 
Pileus thin, campanulate, becoming convex or expanded, 3~5 cm. broad; surface even, 
glabrous, moist or subhygrophanous, yellow or reddish-yellow, margin striate; lamellae rather 
broad, rounded behind, yellowish throughout or only on the edges, becoming flesh-colored; 
spores broadly ellipsoid, 7-8 X 6; stipe equal, solid, slightly striate, white or yellowish, 
about 5 cm. long, 2-3 mm. thick. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Bavaria. 
Hasitrat: On decaying wood in forests. 
DistRIBuTION: Northeastern United States; also in Europe. 
TInLustrattons: Cooke, Brit. Fungi pl. 421 (313); Gill. Champ. Fr. pl. 261 (551); Pat. Tab. 
Fung. 2: Dh c ta Pers. Ic. Descr. Fung. $1.7, f. 4; Ricken, Blatterp. Deutschl. pl. 71, f. 5; Schaeff. Fung. 
Bavar. pl. 48. 
22. Pluteus Whiteae Murrill, sp. nov. 
Pileus convex, not expanding, not umbonate, regular, solitary, 5 cm. broad; surface dry, 
minutely granular, golden-brown or ochraceous-fulvous, umbrinous-avellaneous on the disk, 
margin entire, concolorous, faintly striate; context with a mild taste; lamellae free, rather 
broad and crowded, white to salmon-colored; spores subglobose, smooth, rose-colored, 6-8 y; 
stipe equal, smooth, glabrous, shining, white, somewhat compressed and twisted, hollow or 
stuffed, 7 cm. long, 8 mm. thick. 
Type aoe on decayed wood at Bar Harbor, Maine, August 11, 1901, V. S. White 91 (herb. 
N.Y. Bot 
DiIsTRIBUTION: Known only from the type locality: 
23. Pluteus flavofuligineus Atk. Jour. Myc. 8: 117. 1902. 
Pileus oval to convex, sometimes slightly umbonate, very thin, solitary, 4-5 cm. broad; 
surface minutely tomentose when young, chrome-yellow with a smoky tint and with smoky 
radiating lines which anastomose more or less near the center, margin not striate; context 
thin; lamellae free, rounded at both ends, 3-5 mm. broad, not very crowded, deep-flesh-colored; 
spores ovoid, smooth, deep-flesh-colored, 5~7 X 4-6 u; cystidia numerous, fusoid, blunt at 
the ends, hyaline, 80-100 X 12-20 4; stipe pale-pink to flesh-colored, smooth, solid, becoming 
fistulose, 5-7 cm. long, 4-6 mm. thick. 
TvPE LOCALITY: Coy Glen, Ithaca, New York. 
Hasitat: On very much decayed wood in woods. 
DistRisuTIon: New York to Tennessee. 
24, Pluteus caloceps Atk. Ann. Myc. 7: 373. 1909. 
Pileus convex, umbonate, 2.5-4.5 cm. broad; surface smooth or appearing slightly granu- 
lar in some places by the separation of the cells, or somewhat rimose toward the margin, 
orpiment-orange to vermilion, orange-vermilion at the center; context white; lamellae broadly 
elliptic to subventricose, rounded behind, free, minutely fisecdes on the edges, dull-flesh- 
colored; spores suboblong, 5-8 X 4-6 y; stipe fibrous-striate, pallid, 2.5-6 cm. long, 3-5 mm. 
thick. 
Type LocaLity: Dead Lake, Michigan. 
Hasirat: On the ground. 
DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the type locality. 
25. Pluteus umbonatus C. G. Lloyd, Myc. Notes 15. 1899. 
Pileus campanulate, with a prominent, blunt umbo, 4 cm. broad; surface glabrous, strongly 
striate to the disk, reddish-umbrinous, except on the umbo, which j is almost white, glabrous, 
