134 NORTH AMERICAN FLORA [VorumE 10 
31. Pluteus deliquescens Murrill, sp. nov. 
Pileus soft, watery, very fragile, deliquescent, broadly campanulate, 3.5 cm. broad; 
surface hygrophanous, glabrous, brownish, margin striate; lamellae free, broad, pallid or 
subconcolorous, watery; spores subglobose to broadly ellipsoid, smooth, rose-colored, 7 X 5-6 4; 
stipe cylindric, glabrous, pallid, hollow, firm, 5 cm. long, 2-3 mm. thick. 
Type collected on rotten wood in a swamp at New Orleans, Louisiana, September 5, 1908, 
F. S. Earle 53 (herb. N. ¥. Bot. Gard.). 
DISTRIBUTION: Vicinity of New Orleans, Louisiana. 
32. Pluteus tortus C. G. Lloyd, Myc. Notes 15. 1899. 
Pileus convex to plane, umbonate, regular, cespitose, 3 cm. broad; surface conspicuously 
rugulose, brownish, darker on the umbo, margin concolorous, entire, striate; lamellae free, 
crowded, salmon-colored; stipe equal, curved and much twisted, smooth, shining, glabrous, 
white, solid, 5 cm. long, 3-4 mm. thick. 
‘TYPE LOCALITY: Ohio. 
DistRisuTION: Known only from the type locality. 
33. Pluteus fuliginosus Murrill, sp. nov. 
Pileus conic to campanulate, not expanding, umbonate, regular, solitary, 3-4 cm. broad; 
surface smooth, uniformly fuliginous, clothed with white hairs, margin concolorous, entire, 
striate; lamellae free, ventricose, crowded, white to saimon-colored, entire and concolorous 
on the edges; spores subglobose, smooth, rose-colored, uniguttulate, 7-8 u; stipe tapering 
upward, smooth, glabrous, white or pale-yellowish, slightly squamulose and tinged with 
pale-avellaneous near the base, 6 cm. long, 4-7 mm. thick. 
Type collected on a decayed white pine stump at Lake Placid, Adirondack Mountains, New 
York, July 17-29, 1912, W. A. & Edna L. Murrill 118 (herb. N. Y. Bot. Gard.). 
DiIstRIBUTION: Known only from the type locality. 
34. Pluteus fibrillosus Murrill, sp. nov. 
Pileus thin but rather firm, convex to expanded, not umbonate, solitary, 3 cm. broad; 
surface moist, faintly striate, uniformly dark-fuscous, pale-fuliginous in dried specimens, 
minutely innate-fibrillose, margin entire to undulate or slightly lobed, faintly striate; lamellae 
free, rather broad, ventricose, crowded, white to salmon-colored, entire and concolorous on 
the edges; spores globose or slightly subglobose, smooth, rose-colored, 6-7 u; stipe tapering 
upward, smooth, glabrous, white, solid, 7 cm. long, 4-6 mm. thick. 
Type collected in soil in a wet thicket at Chalmette, New Orleans, Louisiana, September 8, 
1908, F. S. Earle 129 (herb. N. Y. Bot. Gard.). 
DistRIBUTION: Known only from the type locality. 
35. Pluteus tomentosulus Peck, Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 
38: 136. 1885. 
Agaricus tomentosulus Peck, Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 32: 27. 1880. 
Pleurotus tomentosulus Sacc. Syll. Fung. 9: 46. 1891. (By mistake.) 
Pileus thin, convex or nearly plane, subumbonate, 5-7.5 cm. broad; surface minutely 
villose or squamulose-tomentose, white; lamellae rather broad, rounded behind, crowded, white, 
becoming flesh-colored; spores subglobose or broadly ellipsoid, usually uninucleate, 6-8 X 6 pu: 
stipe equal, solid, striate, slightly pubescent or subtomentose, white, 5-12.5 cm. long, 4~8 mm. 
thick. 
Tyre Locality: Catskill Mountains, New York. 
Hasitat: On decaying wood and prostrate trunks. 
DistRIBUTION: New York and Connecticut. 
IntustRations: Atk. Stud. Am. Fungi ed. 1. f. 133; ed. 2. f. 136; Conn. State Geol. & Nat. 
Hist. Surv. 15: pl. 26. 
36. Pluteus cervinus (Schaeff.) Quél. Champ. Jura Vosg. 81. 1872. 
Agaricus cervinus Schaeff. Fung. Bavar. 4: Ind. 6. 1774. 
Pileus rather thin and fragile, bell-shaped to expanded, 6-10 cm. or more broad ; surface 
slightly viscid at times, smooth or slightly radiate-fibrillose, avellaneous to subfuliginous, rarely 
