156 NORTH AMERICAN FLORA [VoLumE 10 
rather broad, dark-ochraceous or pale-cinnamon; spores broadly ellipsoid, smooth, pale- 
cinnamon, 7-8 X 6-7 p; stipe none, pileus attached by a tuft of strigose hairs. 
Type LocaLity: Cooper’s ranch at the base of El Yunque, near Baracoa, Cuba, 
Hasitat: On dead, fallen branches. : 
DistTRiBUTION: Known only from the type locality. 
37. Crepidotus musaecola (Berk. & Curt.) Sacc. Syll. Fung. 5: 883. 
1887. 
Agaricus musaecola Berk. & Curt. Jour. Linn. Soc. 10: 291. 1868. 
Pileus thin, hemispheric to helmet-shaped, 12 mm. broad; surface white; lamellae adnexed, 
broad, pallid-fuscous or purple-fuscous; spores obovoid, purplish-brown; stipe at first central, 
then eccentric and lateral, very short, pulverulent. 
Type Locality: Cuba. 
Hasttat: On dead plantain leaves near the ground. 
DistRIBvuTION: Cuba. 
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38. Crepidotus fumosifolius Murrill, Mycologia 5: 31. 1913. 
Pileus sessile, dimidiate or reniform, thin, firm, fleshy, expanded at maturity, scattered, 
2-3 cm. broad; surface glabrous or slightly pruinose, whitish or with ochraceous tints, margin 
even; lamellae crowded, narrow, becoming very dark-fuscous or almost purplish, resembling 
those of species of Hypholoma; spores ellipsoid or ovoid, dark-fuscous, 6-7 X 4 nu. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Rose Hill, Jamaica. 
Haszirat: On a dead log. 
DIsTRIBUTION: Known only from the type locality. 
39. Crepidotus subcuneiformis Murrill, Mycologia 5: 29. 1913. 
Pileus thin, rather firm, fragile on drying, broadly wedge-shaped, approaching orbicular, 
in outline, plane above, tapering to a rather broad base which is not strigose, gregarious, 
reaching 1 cm. broad and becoming somewhat longer; surface glabrous or pulverulent, moist, 
dull-isabelline to avellaneous-isabelline, margin very thin, entire, not striate; lamellae radiating 
from the sessile base, subcrowded, plane, dull-yellowish to umbrinous; spores ovoid, smooth, 
melleous under a microscope, uniguttulate, 7-8 X 5 u. 
Type LocaLity: Grenada, West Indies. 
Hasirat: On decaying cocoanut husks. 
DistRiBpuTion: Known only from the type locality. 
40. Crepidotus substipitatus Murrill, Mycologia 5: 31. 1913. 
Pileus soft, fleshy, thin, very fragile when dry, orbicular-reniform, expanded, gregarious, 
about 1 cm. broad; surface moist, subglabrous, dull-ochraceous, not striate on the margin; 
lamellae adnexed, subcrowded, rather broad, ventricose, ochraceous to dull-cinnamon; spores 
ovoid or broadly ellipsoid, opaque, dull-cinnamon, minutely punctate, 5-6 X 4; stipe ec- 
centric, short, curved, cylindric, glabrous, shining, dark-reddish-brown, 4-8 mm. long, 1 mm. 
thick. 
‘TYPE LOCALITY: El Yunque, near Baracoa, Cuba. 
Hapitatr: On dead twigs on the ground. 
DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the type locality. 
41. Crepidotus cacaophyllus (Berk. & Curt.) Sacc. Syll. Fung. 5: 
883. 1887. 
Agaricus cacaophyllus Berk. & Curt. Jour. Linn. Soc. 10: 291. 1868. 
Pileus eccentric, subreniform, 12 mm. broad; surface squamulose, yellowish, margin 
tomentose; lamellae adnexed, attenuate behind, distant, fuscous;. spores ochraceous; stipe 
short, 5 mm. long, 2 mm. thick. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Cuba, 
Hasiratr: On dead wood. 
DisTRIBUTION: Known only from the type locality, 
