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and fibrillose on the margin, pale-pink or pallid on the margin and pink at the center; context 
white, the taste bitter and unpleasant; lamellae thin, crowded, adnate, sometimes slightly 
sinuate, whitish, soon bright-tawny or Indian-yellow, becoming bright-tawny-ochraceous 
with age; spores bright-tawny-ochraceous in a thick layer, ochraceous-buff in a thin one, 
7.5 X 5-6 u; stipe equal or nearly so, stuffed or hollow, pallid, sometimes yellowish at the base, 
fibrillose at the apex from the remains of the veil, 2.5-3.5 em. long, 3-4 mm. thick. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Menands, Albany County, New York. 
Haxwirat: On decaying wood of hemlock. 
Distrrsution: Northern New York, Massachusetts, Minnesota, and Indiana. 
33. Gymnopilus granulosus (Peck) Murrill. 
Flammula granulosa Peck; V. White, Bull. Torrey Club 29: 561. 1902. 
Pileus thin, hemispheric, becoming convex, solitary, 2.5-3.5 cm. broad; surface dry, 
densely squamulose, tawny; context with slightly nutty taste; lamellae thin, rather broad, 
subdistant, adnate or slightly decurrent, pale-yellow, becoming tawny-ferruginous; spores 
ellipsoid, generally uninucleate, 7-8 X 4-5 y; stipe fleshy, rather slender, stuffed, glabrous 
or sometimes minutely squamulose, concolorous, 2.5-3 cm. long, 1.5-3 mm. thick. 
Type LocaLity: Bar Harbor, Mount Desert, Maine. 
Hasirat: On decaying coniferous wood or sawdust. 
DISTRIBUTION: Maine to Pennsylvania. 
34. Gymnopilus aromaticus Murrill, sp. nov. 
Pileus convex to expanded, thin, somewhat cespitose, 3 cm. broad; surface conspicuously 
floccose, areolate with age, yellowish-ferruginous, margin not striate; context whitish, aromatic, 
with the taste of birch twigs; lamellae adnexed, crowded, rather narrow, yellow to bright- 
ferruginous; spores ferruginous, ellipsoid, 8 X 44; stipe cylindric, densely yellow-fibrillose, 
chrome-yellow, solid, hard, whitish within, 2-3 cm. long, 4 mm. thick. 
Type collected on a dead hemlock at West Park, New York, August 9, 1903, F. S. Earle 1854 
(herb. N. Y. Bot. Gard.). 
Disrriputrion: Maine and New York. 
35. Gymnopilus eccentricus (Peck) Murrill. 
Flammula eccentrica Peck, Bull. Torrey Club 31: 179. 1904. 
Pileus thin, broadly convex, obtuse or slightly umbilicate, 2.5-3.5 cm. broad; surface 
dry, minutely squamulose, tawny, yellowish, or reddish-ferruginous; context whitish; lamellae 
rather broad, crowded, somewhat sinuate-adnate, dingy-ochraceous, becoming ferruginous; 
spores bright-ferruginous, ellipsoid, 15-16 X 84; stipe equal or slightly tapering upward, 
commonly eccentric, solid, fibrillose, yellowish or dingy-ochraceous, becoming brownish 
without and within, 2-3 cm. long, 4-8 mm. thick. 
Type Locality: St. Louis, Missouri. 
Hastrat: On decaying wood. : 
DistRIBUTION: Known only from the type locality. 
36. Gymnopilus penetrans (Fries) Murrill, Mycologia 4: 254. 1912. 
Agaricus penetrans Fries, Obs. Myc. 1: 23. 1815. 
Flammula penetrans Quél. Champ. Jura Vosg. 233. 1872. 
Pileus conic or convex to plane, gregarious or sometimes cespitose, 3-6 cm. broad; strface 
dry, slightly floccose-squamulose when young, often becoming squamose or rimose with age, 
golden-tawny or ferruginous-fulvous, sometimes much darker in old or dried specimens; 
lamellae adnate, crowded, cream-colored to ferruginous or fulvous, changing to reddish- 
fulvous when bruised, entire and concolorous on the edges; spores ovoid or ellipsoid, smooth, 
melleous under the microscope, 7-9 X 3.5-5 wu; stipe rather short, often irregular, equal or 
tapering upward, whitish-fibrillose streaked with yellow or brown, often much darker below 
with age, whitish- or yellowish-mycelioid at the base, 4-8 cm. long, 5-10 mm. thick; veil slight, 
floccose, fugacious. 
Type Locality: Sweden. . 
Hanrrat: On dead coniferous wood, usually on pine. . . 
DisTRIBUTION: Throughout temperate North America; Cuba and Jamaica; also in Europe. 
InLustRations: Cooke, Brit. Fungi pl. 447 (487) (as Agaricus sapineus); Fries, Ic. Hymen. 
1, 118, f. 2. . . : 
‘s Saas Ellis, N. Am. Fungi 906 (as Agaricus sapineus). 
