no Cincinnati Society of Natural History. 



Stipe hollow, tough, tapering downwartl, dark brown, white-fibrillose. 

 Lamellje somewhat decurrenl, rather distant, triangular, brown. 

 Spores brown-ferruginous. 



In woods on rotten wood, sticks and rubbish. Gregarious, very 

 small; pileus ^ an inch or less in breatlth; stipe 1 in. long, scarcely a 

 line in thickness. 



Subgenus XXIV. — Crepidotus, Fr. 



Pileus eccentric, lateral or resupinate. 



a. Pileus lateral. 



121. A. MOLLIS, Schfeff. — Pileus gelatinous-fleshy, soft, obovate or 

 renif(»rm, flaccid, nearly sessile, glabrous, pallid then canescent. 

 LamelljE decurrent to the base, close, linear, whitish then watery 

 cinnamon. Spores ferruginous, elliptic, .009X.0056 mm. 



On old stumps and rotten trunks ; common. Solitary or imbricated; 

 pileus 1-2 in. broad. Pileus, in the larger forms, undulately lobed, 

 commonly sessile, but it varies, being sometimes produced behind 

 into a short, strigose stipe. 



122. A. KOR8ALIS, Peck. — Pileus fleshy, sessile, dimidiate or some- 

 what reniform, flat or a little depressed behind, with a decurved 

 slightly striate margin, somewhat fibrillose-tomentose, distinctly to- 

 mentose at the point of attachment, reddish-3'ellow. Lamellse close, 

 ventricose. rounded behind, somewhat emarginate, converging to a 

 whitish, villous, lateral space, \n\\c ochraceous-browu. Spores ferrug- 

 inous, ghtbose, .000 mm. in diameter. 



On old logs in woods. Pileus 1-2 in. broad. lu general appearance, 

 it bears some resemblance to Pamts doi'salis. 



12.'{. A. f'KocoiMiYLLUs, Berk. — Pileus fleshy, convex, somewhat fla- 

 belliform, sessile, uppressed scaly, ochraceous-brown. Lamellai rather 

 broad, rounded behind, bright buff or orange. Spores pale ochre- 

 yeliow, nearly globose. 



On old logs in woods. Pileus scarce half an inch long. This is 

 one of Mr. Lea's new species. 



b. Pileus at flrst resi(2)inafe. 



124. A. VEB8UTUS, Peck. — Pileus at first resuiiinate, then rcflexed, 

 sessile, thin, pure white, soft-villous, the margin incurved. Lamellae 

 rather broad, somewhat distant, concurrent to an excentric point, 



