ParT 3, 1917] AGARICACEAE 209 
melleous under the microscope, 7-8 X 3.5~4 #; stipe equal, cremeous above, pale-fulvous 
below, smooth, fibrillose, 4-7 cm. long, 5-8 mm. thick; veil slight, citrinous, membranous in 
young stages, soon breaking into fibrils and leaving no annulus. 
TYPE Locauity: Seattle, Washington. 
Hasirat: On dead stumps and logs in woods. 
DISTRIBUTION: Seattle, Washington. 
60. Gymnopilus laeticolor Murrill, Mycologia 4: 251. 1912. 
Flammula laeticolor Murrill, Mycologia 4: 262. 1912. 
Pileus convex or somewhat conic to subexpanded, rarely umbonate, thin, cespitose, 
wood-loving, 3-5 em. broad; surface smooth, glabrous, slightly viscid, hygrophanous, miniatous 
when young, becoming testaceous at the center and ochroleucous on the margin in mature 
plants; context dull-colored, bitterish; lamellae adnate, rather narrow, not crowded, ochraceous; 
spores ellipsoid, smooth, hyaline with a yellowish tint under the microscope, probably pale- 
ochraceous in mass, with one or two very brilliant nuclei, 7 X 3-4 4; stipe equal, miniatous 
to ochroleucous below, white above, slightly moist and viscid, decorated with a few fibrils, 
the remains of a slight white veil, about 7 cm. long, 4-8 mm. thick. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Seattle, Washington. 
Hasrrat: Growing from the under side of a much decayed coniferous log in the forest. 
DISTRIBUTION: Seattle, Washington. 
61. Gymnopilus latus Murrill, Mycologia 4: 257. 1912. 
Flammula lata Murrill, Mycologia 4: 262. 1912. 
Pileus convex to plane, not umbonate, gregarious, wood-loving, reaching 9 em. broad; 
surface glabrous, shining, viscid, radiate-lineate, ferruginous-fulvous at the center, ochroleucous 
on the margin; context rather thin, mild to the taste; lamellae sinuate or adnate, pallid to 
fulvous, plane, not crowded, rather narrow; spores ellipsoid, rounded at the ends, smooth, 
melleous under the microscope, 6 X 3.5 4; stipe equal or slightly larger below, dry, smooth, 
subglabrous, fleshy, white or somewhat yellowish, with yellow or orange mycelium at the 
base, 5-7 em. long, 1-1.3 cm. thick; veil pale-yellow, membranous in young hymenophores, 
soon breaking into fibrils and disappearing. 
TyPE Locality: Seattle, Washington. 
Hazrat: On a dead deciduous log in woods. _ 
DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the type locality. 
62. Gymnopilus decoratus Murrill, Mycologia 4: 251. 1912. 
Flammula decorata Murrill, Mycologia 4: 262. 1912. 
Pileus convex to slightly depressed, at times umbonate, cespitose, wood-loving, 3.5-5 
em. broad; surface slightly viscid, the center imbricate-scaly with pale-bay scales, chestnut- 
colored on the umbo, the remainder of the surface cremeous, fading to white toward the 
margin; lamellae adnate or sinuate, isabelline to fulvous, rather broad but plane, not crowded, 
the edges undulate; spores ellipsoid or ovoid, smooth, very pale melleous under the microscope, 
5-6 X 3.5-4 uw; cystidia abundant, hyaline, conic, tapering to a short, narrow stalk, obtuse at 
the apex, 30 X 124; stipe equal, rather tough, stuffed, white or yellowish, shaggy-fibrillose, 
5-8 cm. long, 5-6 mm. thick; veil fibrillose, evanescent, remaining attached partly to the 
margin and partly to the stipe. 
Type Locatity: Seattle, Washington. : 
Hasrrat: On dead wood in open ground or in woods. 
DISTRIBUTION: Washington and Oregon. 
63. Gymnopilus hypholomoides Murrill, Mycologia 5: 26. 1913. 
Flammula hypholomoides Murrill, Mycologia 5: 36. 1913. 
Pileus convex to expanded, 3-6 cm. broad; surface dry, subfibrillose, pale-fuscous, fer- 
ruginous at the center, margin thin, somewhat folded and uneven, not striate ; context thin, 
yellowish, of mawkish flavor; lamellae inserted, crowded, rather narrow, sinuate, tawny- 
