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37. Gymnopilus subfulvus (Peck) Murrill. 
Flammula subfulua Peck, Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 41: 68. 1888. 
Pileus convex, more or less cespitose, 3.5-6 cm. broad; surface viscid, innately fibrillose, 
sordid-tawny, spotted toward the margin with darker colored, appressed scales; context 
grayish-white; lamellae crowded, adnate, becoming ferruginous; spores ellipsoid, uninucleate, 
brownish-ferrtiginous, 6-7.5 X 44; stipe equal or slightly tapering upward, fibrillose, solid, 
whitish, 5-7.5 cm. long, 4~8 mm. thick. 
Type Locatity: Catskill Mountains, New York. 
Hasrrat: About the bases of trees. 
DIsTRIBUTION: New York and Pennsylvania. 
38. Gymnopilus polychrous (Berk.) Murrill. 
Agaricus polychrous Berk. Lond. Jour. Bot. 6: 313. 1847. 
Agaricus ornellus Peck, Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 34: 42. 1883. 
Flammula polychroa Sacc. Syl. Fung. 5: 824. 1887. 
Pholiota appendiculaia Peck, Bull. N. Y. State Mus. 94: 33. 1905. 
Pholiota ornella Peck, Bull. N. Y. State Mus. 122: 151. 1908. 
Pileus fleshy, firm, convex or nearly plane, broadly umbonate, solitary or cespitose, 
4-6 cm. broad; surface very viscid, slightly squamose, of many colors, purple when young, 
changing to buff or light-yellow on the margin with the umbo purple or brownish-yellow, 
margin floccose-appendiculate; lamellae broad, rather distant, sinuate, adnate, or slightly 
decurrent, at first dirty-white, becoming brownish-purple and at length yellowish-brown; 
spores ellipsoid, smooth, yellowish under the microscope, brown in mass, 6-7 X 4 y; stipe firm, 
nearly equal, somewhat woody, at first furfuraceous, solid, pale-yellow, often purplish at the 
base, 2.5-7 cm. long, 3-5 mm. thick; veil evanescent, consisting of purple and yellow fibers. 
TyPE LocALIty: Waynesville, Ohio. 
Hasitat: On dead deciduous branches and logs. 
DISTRIBUTION: New England to Alabama and west to Wisconsin. 
InLustrRations: Atk. Stud. Am. Fungi ed. 1. f. 147; ed. 2. f. 151; Bull. N. Y. State Mus. 94: 
‘pl. P, f. 8-17. 
39. Gymnopilus multifolius (Peck) Murrill. 
Flammula multifolia Peck, Bull. Torrey Club 32: 79. 1905. 
Flammula expansa Peck, Bull. N. VY. State Mus. 116: 24. 1907. 
Pileus convex, subumbonate, 6~8 cm, broad; surface glabrous or obscurely fibrillose, 
tawny-yellow, sometimes paler on the margin and darker at the center, margin incurved; 
context faintly tinged with yellow; lamellae narrow, numerous, crowded, rounded behind, 
adnexed, concolorous or a little paler than the pileus, the edges crenulate with yellow or reddish- 
yellow glandular drops; spores subglobose, 4-5 u; stipe equal or slightly thickened at the base, 
solid, floccose, fibrillose or subglabrous, yellow, sometimes eccentric, 2.5-3.5 em. long, 2-5 mm. 
thick. 
Tyre Locality: St. Louis, Missouri. 
Haspirat: On decaying wood in ravines and on dead logs. 
DISTRIBUTION: New York, Missouri, and the mountains of western North Carolina. 
40. Gymnopilus ludovicianus Murrill, sp. nov. 
Pileus firm, depressed, 6-10 cm. broad; surface glabrous, moist, not viscid, pale-yellowish- 
tan, margin not striate, upturned; context white, mild; lamellae adnate, crowded, narrow, pale- 
cinnamon; spores subovoid, smooth, melleous under the microscope, 8-9 X 6-7 y; stipe 
cylindric, often curved, firm, white, glabrous, solid, 10-12 em. long, 1 em. thick. 
Type collected at the base of a living maple tree in City Park, New Orl 
F.S. Earle 39 (herb. N. Y. Bot. Gard.). . oneness 
DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the type locality. 
41. Gymnopilus lentus (Pers.) Murrill. 
Agaricus lentus Pers. Syn. Fung. 287. 1801. 
Flammula lenta Gill. Champ. Fr. 1: 533. 1878. 
Flammula betulina Peck, Bull. Torrey Club 34: 100. 1907. 
Pileus fleshy, convex, becoming nearly plane, 6-10 cm. broad; surface floccose or fib- 
rillose, smooth or roughish, viscid when young, subviscid when old, whitish or buff, some- 
