Parr 3, 1917] AGARICACEAE 205 
times slightly appendiculate on the margin; context white; lamellae thin, broad, crowded, 
ventricose, adnate or decurrent with a tooth, whitish, becoming cinnamon-brown; spores 
ellipsoid, 6-8 X 4-5 yw; stipe fleshy, fragile, equal, fibrous, stuffed, striate at the apex, whitish, 
5-7 cm. long, 6-9 mm. thick. 
Tyre LocaLity: Europe. 
Hasirat: On dead trunks. 
DiIstRIBUTION: New York to South Carolina in the eastern United States; also in Europe. 
Iniustrations: Cooke, Brit. Fungi ol. 439 (469), 440 (470); Gill. Champ. Fr. pl. 116 (284). 
42, Gymnopilus Underwoodii (Peck) Murrill. 
Flammula Underwoodii Peck, Bull. Torrey Club 23: 415. 1896. 
Pileus convex or nearly plane, often irregular from its densely cespitose mode of growth, 
6-10 cm. broad; surface squamulose or furfuraceous, yellowish-brown; lamellae rather broad, 
crowded, adnate or slightly decurrent, yellow; spores ellipsoid, ochraceous, 6-7.5 X 4-5 y; 
stipe tapering downward, radicate, longitudinally streaked with brownish hues, yellow at the 
apex, 5-10 cm. long, 6-12 mm. thick. 
Type Locarity: Alabama. 
Hapsirat: On pine trunks. 
DISTRIBUTION: Virginia to Florida. 
43. Gymnopilus magnus (Peck) Murrill. 
Flammula magna Peck, Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 50: 103. 1897. 
Cortinarius validipes Peck, Bull. N. Y. State Mus. 116: 20. 1907. 
Pileus fleshy, soft, broadly convex, cespitose, 10-15 em. broad; surface dry, fibrillose and 
somewhat virgate, pale-yellow or buff, margin commonly becoming revolute with agé; context 
whitish or yellowish; lamellae crowded, adnate or slightly decurrent, often crisped or wavy 
toward the stipe, about 6 mm. wide, ochraceous; spores subellipsoid, ochraceous, 8-10 X 5-6 p; 
stipe equal or thickened toward the base, fleshy-fibrous, solid, elastic, fibrillose, concolorous, 
brighter yellow within, 7.5-10 cm. long, 1.5—5 cm. thick. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Westchester County, New York. 
Hasitat: About the bases of trees. 
DistRIBuTION: New York. 
44, Gymnopilus fulvellus (Peck) Murrill, Mycologia 4: 253. 1912. 
Flammula fulvella Peck; J. M. Macoun, in D. S. Jordan, Fur Seals N. Pacif. 3: 584. 1899. 
Pileus thin, convex or nearly plane, 1.2-2.4 cm. broad; surface glabrous, subtawny, the 
margin deflexed or incurved; context whitish; lamellae thin, subdistant, adnate or slightly 
decurrent, somewhat tawny, inclining to ochraceous-tawny; spores ellipsoid, 12.5 7.5 p; 
stipe equal, solid, fibrillose or fibrillose-squamulose, concolorous, 2.5 cm. long, 3-4 mm. thick. 
Tyre Locality: St. Paul Island, Bering Sea. 
Hasitat: On low ground. . 
DistRiBvutTIon: Known only from the type locality. 
45, Gymnopilus californicus (Earle) Murrill, Mycologia 4: 253. 
1912. 
Flammule californica Earle, Bull. N. ¥. Bot. Gard. 2: 342. 1902. 
Pileus expanded, subumbonate, gregarious or cespitose, 4-7 cm. broad; surface glabrous, 
subhygrophanous, pale-ochraceous-brown, often darker on the umbo, margin entire; context 
cream-colored, unchanging, the taste and smell mild; lamellae subsinuate-decurrent, hetero- 
phyllous, crowded, subventricose, pale-ochraceous to fusco-ferruginous; spores ferruginous, 
ellipsoid, 6-7 X 4 w; stipe subequal, slightly enlarged at the apex and base, glabrous above, 
brown-fibrillose below, pale-brown, yellowish-white at the apex, solid, white-mycelioid at the 
base, 5-6 cm. long, 3-4 mm. thick. 
‘Type Locatity: Stanford University, California. 
Hasprrat: Under trees, probably from buried rotten wood. 
DISTRIBUTION: Vicinity of Stanford University, California. 
