258 NORTH AMERICAN FLORA [VoLuME 9 
whitish, floccose-pruinose to subglabrous, mycelioid at the base, subequal, usually increasing 
below, 1-2 cm. long, about 1 mm. thick. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Surinam. 
Hastrat: On dead sticks, leaf-stalks, grass, etc. . . 
DISTRIBUTION: Cuba, Porto Rico, Jamaica, and Guadeloupe; also in Surinam. 
ILLUSTRATIONS: Jour. Bot. 30: pl. 322, f. 15, 16. 
20. Marasmius Earlei Murrill, sp. nov. 
Pileus small, opaque, convex to subexpanded, broadly but distinctly depressed at the 
center with age, gregarious, 3-5 mm. broad; surface finely pubescent to glabrous, whitish, 
smooth, not striate, usually discolored at the center, margin entire, concolorous, inflexed on 
drying: lamellae broad, adnate, very thin, irregular, several times inserted, ventricose, white, 
subdistant, scarcely interveined: spores ellipsoid, smooth, hyaline, 6-7 X4-5 u: stipe filiform, 
rather short, smooth, glabrous, shining, bay above, blackish below, about 5 mm. long, 0.2 mm, 
thick. 
Type collected on a dead log at Castleton Gardens, Jamaica, October 28, 1902, F. S. Earle 269 
(herb. N. Y. Bot. Gard.). 
DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the type locality. 
21. Marasmius pruinosulus Murrill, sp. nov. 
Pileus convex, obtuse, solitary, 5 mm. broad; surface white, smooth, minutely pruinose, 
margin entire, concolorous: lamellae decurrent, subdistant, narrow, white: stipe filiform, slightly 
enlarged at the base, white above, fuliginous below, pruinose, 1 cm. long, 0.5 mm. thick. 
Type collected on dead grass stems at Santiago de las Vegas, Cuba, October 16, 1904, F. S. 
Earle 284 (herb. N. Y. Bot. Gard.). 
DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the type locality, 
22. Marasmius praetortipes Murrill, sp. nov. 
Pileus convex, umbilicate, solitary, 5-10 mm. broad; surface white, pruinose-fibrillose, 
margin irregularly sulcate: lamellae adnate-decurrent, few, forking and interveined, anasto- 
mosing, broad, thin, white: stipe filiform, inserted, densely pruinose-velvety, grayish-black, 
much twisted on drying, 2-3 cm. long, 1 mm. thick. 
Type collected on dead twigs at Hope Gardens, Jamaica, November 16, 1902, F. S. Earle 503 
(herb. N. Y. Bot. Gard.). 
DistrRrBUTION: Known only from the type locality. 
23. Marasmius hondurensis Murrill, sp. nov. 
Pileus convex to subexpanded, umbonate, gregarious, 0.5-1 em. broad: surface white, 
slightly darker at the center, striate, glabrous except on the umbo, which is minutely hispid 
when young, margin thin, plicate and deflexed on drying: lamellae distant, broad, once or twice 
inserted, not interveined, rather firm and regular, adnate, white: spores ellipsoid, smooth, hy- 
aline, granular, 5-7 X3-4 uv: stipe pallid at the apex, black below, finely pubescent, slender, 
equal, inserted, 2 cm. long, 0.5 mm, thick. 
Type collected on dead sticks in British Honduras, 1906, Morton E. Peck (herb. N. Y. Bot. Gard.). 
DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the type locality. 
24. Marasmius glebigenus Fries, Nova Acta Soc. Sci. Upsal. III. 1: 
31. 1851. 
Pileus very thin, membranous, campanulate to convex, umbilicate, 4-6 mm. broad; 
surface whitish, margin deeply plicate: lamellae equal, few, distant, broad, free, without a 
collar: stipe glabrous, blackish-brown, very slender, with a bulbous clod of earth at the base, 
capillary, tough, 5-8 cm. long. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Morningstar, Island of St. Croix, Danish West Indies, 
Haazirtat: On the ground. 
DISTRIBUTION: Known only. from the type locality. 
