CLASSIFICATION OP AOARH 



Our plant lias rather broad gills as is Bhown in Fries' [com 

 The other authors figure oarrower gills. The pileus becomes bygro- 

 phanous streaked on drying. 



633. Eccilia pirinoides sp. DOV. 



PILEUS i - cm. broad, campanulate, then subexpanded, margin 

 decurved, depressed-umbilicate, grayish-brown to fuscous, moist, 

 silky shining when dry, with dense oppressed small squamules on 

 disk, appressed-fibrillose elsewhere. GILLS adnato-decurrent, 

 broad behind, subdistant, thin, whitish then posj tinged to brij 

 flesh color. STEM 1-6 cm. long, 1 2.5 nun. thick, distinctly cartil- 

 aginous, white, slightly fuscescent, pruinate, equal, even, stuffed 

 with a white ]>ith. finally hollow. SPORES sphoeroid-subangular, 

 angles not prominent, 8-10 micr. diam. (without apiculus), abrupt- 

 ly narrowed to <m apiculus which is 2-3 micr. long, obscurely 5-6 

 sided. CYSTIDLV not numerous, slender, acuminate, about 75 

 micr. lonjr. BASIIHA f-spored, clavate, 15-50 micr. long. ODOB 

 none. 



Gregarious. On the ground, anions forest debris, hemlock, "ak 

 and maple woods; clay ravine. September. New Richmond. 



Excepl for its lack of a strong malic odor, it agrees with all the 

 descriptions which we have of /-.'. pirina B. & C. It also approaches 

 /;. rhodocylicioides Atk.; bu1 it differs from the Latter in its bright 

 colored spores, even pileus and broadly adnate, white gills; the 

 shape of the spores is also different. It has so far been found only 

 in one locality. 



634. Eccilia pentagonospora Atk. var. 



Jour, of Mycol., Vol. 8, p. 1 13, 1902. 



PILEUS 5-20 mm. broad, fragile. < vex plane, nmbilicate, hygro- 



phanous, <n first blackish-gray, i<i<lin<i to steel-gray mnl shining, 

 even, at firsl minutely tomentose-flocculose over the entire Burt 

 later appressed scurfy. FLESH thin, membranous. <;ild.s broad 

 behind and adnate-subdecurrent, at first grayish then dark flesh 

 color, dose to subdistant, thickish, somewhal crisped, edge con- 

 color. STEM 1-2.5 cm. long, 1-1.5 mm. thick, equal, hollow, enl 

 ly glabrous, cartilaginous, metallic gray, whitish mycelioid at b 

 SPORES tuberculate-angular, mostly 5-angled. angles obtn» 

 micr. (incl. apiculus), deep flesh color in mass. CYSTIP1 \ • 

 BASIDLA about ::<> x9 L0 micr. 



