158 NORTH AMERICAN FLORA [VoLumME 10 
I have compared his specimens with good material from Bresadola and they appear to be 
quite distinct. 
Crepidotus hepatizon (Berk.) Sacc. Syll. Fung. 5: 879. 1887. (Agaricus hepatizon Berk. 
Lond. Jour. Bot. 6:486. 1847.) A Ceylon species reported from California by McClatchie. 
65. TUBARIA (W. CG. Smith) Gill. Champ. Fr. 537. 1876. 
Agaricus § Tubaria W. G. Smith, Clavis Agar. 21. 1870. 
Pileus fleshy, putrescent, the margin incurved when young; lamellae decurrent; spores 
ochraceous, ferruginous, or fulvous; stipe central, slender, tubular, cartilaginous; veil sometimes 
present in young stages, but forming no annulus. 
Type species, Tubaria ingquilina (Fries) Gill. 
I. SPECIES OCCURRING IN TEMPERATE NorTH AMERICA, EXCEPT THOSE CONFINED TO THE 
PacIFic COAST 
Pileus grayish-white or canescent, 4~6 mm. broad. 1. T. canescens. 
Pileus pale-yellow, ochraceous, or reddish-brown fading to ochraceous on 
ying. 
Pileus 5-10 mm. broad. 
Pileus pale-ochraceous when moist; species occurring in moss. ; . LT. praecox. 
Pileus brown when moist; species occurring on fragments of wood in : 
fields. T. alabamensis. 
Pileus 1-2.5 em. broad. 
Stipe 1-2 em. long. 
Lamellae adnate-decurrent. 
Lamellae strongly decurrent. 
Stipe 2.5-6 cm. long. 
Pileus conic to campanulate with a slight umbo. 
Pileus umbilicate or depressed. 
Species occurring on dung. 
Species occurring on soil or fallen dead wood. 
Hymenophores gregarious. 
Hymenophores cespitose. 
. Luteoalba. 
. GECUrTENS, 
. bicona. 
. deformatia. 
. crenulata. 
. Larlei. 
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AA SS AS 
II, SPECIES OCCURRING ON THE PACIFIC COAST 
Pileus glabrous. 
Pileus cremeous. 10. T. Abramsii. 
Pileus ferruginous or reddish-cinnamon when moist. ; 
Stipe about 1 cm. long. ll. T. brevipes. 
Stipe 2.5—5 em. long. 12. T. tenuis. 
Pileus brick-red when moist. 13. T. pallescens. 
Pileus furfuraceous. 8. T. crenulata. 
III. Srkcrgs CONFINED To TROPICAL NortH AMERICA 
Pileus date-brown, pulverulent; stipe 4 mm. thick. 14, T. coniophora. 
1. Tubaria canescens Peck, Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 46: 
104 (24). 1893. 
Pileus very thin, almost membranous, convex, 4-6 mm. broad; surface grayish-white or 
canescent, coated with minute, whitish fibrils or appressed tomentum; lamellae distant, de- 
current, cinnamon-colored; spores ellipsoid, often containing a shining nucleus, 6 X 44; 
stipe slender, whitish, fibrillose, with a white mycelium at the base, 12-16 mm long. 
Tyre Locarity: Selkirk, New York. 
Haszirat: On damp, naked soil in woods. 
DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the type locality. 
2. Tubaria praecox Murrill, sp. nov. 
Pileus convex-umbilicate, gregarious, 5-10 mm. broad; surface dry, silky-fibrillose, pale- 
ochraceous, margin thin, entire, concolorous; lamellae long-decurrent, subcrowded, broad, 
rosy-ochraceous, entire and concolorous on the edges; spores ovoid to ellipsoid, smooth, pale- 
yellowish under the microscope, 8 X 4 »; stipe somewhat enlarged at the apex, fulvous with a 
rosy tint, glabrous above, subfibrillose below, tough, solid or with a minute cavity, 2 cm. long, 
1 mm. thick. 
Type collected in moss by the roadside in the New York Botani 2 
F. S. Earle 276 (herb. N. V. Bot. Gard.). Scene eacemied ume cea eas Ue 
DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the type locality. 
