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ish-ferruginous when mature; spores ellipsoid, 7.5 X 4 4; stipe short, equal, solid or stuffed, 
floccose-fibrillose, whitish, becoming ferruginous toward the base, which is slightly villose- 
strigose, the apex flocculent-pulverulent, 1.5-3 cm. long, about 2 mm. thick. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Smithtown, Suffolk County, New York. 
Hasirart: On roots of stumps and water-soaked wood in open places, 
DISTRIBUTION: New York. 
In.ustrations: Bull. N. ¥. State Mus. 67: ol. M, f. 35-41. 
24. Gymnopilus viscidus (Peck) Murrill. 
Flemmula viscida Peck, Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 51: 290. 1898. 
Pileus hemispheric or convex, densely cespitose, 1.2-2.4 em. broad; surface glabrous, 
pale-yellow, the pellicle viscid, separable; margin obscurely striatulate when moist, incurved 
when young; context white; lamellae thin, crowded, emarginate, adnexed, whitish when young, 
becoming dark-ferruginous; spores broadly ellipsoid, brownish-ferruginous, 6-7.5 X 4-5 nu; 
stipe equal, fibrous, hollow but the cavity small, sometimes squamulose, pallid or subferru- 
ginous, 2.5-5 cm. long, 3-4 mm. thick. 
TYPE Locatity: North Elba, New York. 
Hasirat: On decaying wood of alder, Alnus incana. 
DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the type locality. 
25. Gymnopilus squamulosus Murrill, sp. nov. 
Pileus convex, not fully expanding, gibbous, solitary, 2 cm. broad; syrface dry, finely 
squamulose, uniformly ferruginous, margin entire, concolorous; lamellae adnate, crowded, 
broad, plane, ferruginous to fulvous at maturity, yellowish and somewhat crenulate on the 
edges; spores ellipsoid, smooth, melleous under the microscope, uniguttulate, 8-9 X 5-6 u; 
stipe tapering downward, short, subconcolorous, fibrillose, rather tough, 2 cm. long, 2 mm. 
thick. 
Type collected on dead wood in woods near the New York Botanical Garden, September 13, 
1910, W. A. Murrill (herb. N. Y. Bot. Gard.). . 
DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the type locality. 
26. Gymnopilus fagicola Murrill, sp. nov. 
Pileus hemispheric, not fully expanding, slightly umbonate, cespitose, 2 cm. broad; 
surface dry, densely imbricate-squamulose, uniformly fulvous; lamellae adnate, distant, 
arcuate, broad, melleous to ferruginous, beautifully crenulate and yellow on the edges; spores 
ellipsoid, smooth, melleots under the microscope, 7-8 X 4-5 yp; stipe equal, slender, rather 
tough, solid, dry, ochraceous, becoming darker at the base, rough with rather coarse fibrils, 
3 cm. long, 2 mm. thick. 
Type collected on a dead beech log at Lake Placid, Adirondack Mountains, New York, July 
17-29, 1912, W. A. & Edna L. Murrill 183 (berb. N. Y. Bot. Gard.). 
DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the type locality. 
27. Gymnopilus flavidellus Murrill, sp. nov. 
Pileus convex to plane or slightly depressed, gregarious or subcespitose, 3-5 cm. broad; 
surface dry or moist, smooth, glabrous, not striate, melleous to ochraceous or luteous at the 
center, margin entire, cream-colored; context yellowish, with mawkish, slightly bitter taste; 
lamellae adnate or sinuate with a decurrent tooth, rather crowded and narrow, pale-yellow 
to ferruginous; spores ovoid, minutely echinulate, ferruginous, 8-9 X 5-6 u; stipe subequal, 
solid to hollow, pale-yellow to yellowish-brown, pruinose at the apex, whitish-mycelioid at the 
base, 3-5 em. long, 3-5 mm. thick; veil arachnoid, fugacious. 
Type collected on a chestnut stump in woods at the New York Botanical Garden, September 9, 
1911, W. A. Murrill (herb. N. Y. Bot. Gard.,). . 
Hasrrat: On dead wood of various deciduous and coniferous trees. _ 
DISTRIBUTION: Throughout most of temperate North America; also in Bermuda. 
28. Gymnopilus praecox (Peck) Murrill. 
Flammula praecox Peck, Bull. Torrey Club 36: 334. 1909, 
Pileus fleshy, convex, becoming nearly plane, gregarious or cespitose, about 3 cm. broad; 
surface glabrous, moist or hygrophanous, brown or reddish-brown, paler when old and dry, 
