HymenomycetfB, Agaricacere, Rhoclospora}, Pluteus. 183 



Hab. in scobis acervo dense caespitosiis, Pacific, Missouri, Amer. 

 bor. — Etlulis et deliciosus. — var. nlgrofloccosus R. Scliulz, in 

 Verk. Bot. Ver. Prov. Brandenb. LIV (1912) pag. 102 (1913). — 

 Pileo atro-tomentoso, in centro valde gibboso ibique nigro-tioccoso ; 

 stipite atro-fibrilloso ; himellis in acie cinereo-maculatis. 



Hah. ad caudicem arboris, in Eeisengebirge, Germania. 



2. Pluteus Earlei Murrill, Mycologla, 1911, p. 270. — Pileo crassiu- 679 

 sculo expauso subgibbo 10 cm. lato, sicco, dense floccoso, unifor- 

 miter pallide flavo margine non striato ; lamellis liberis confertis 

 latis dein sordide rubellis ; sporis regularibus ovoideis levibus uni- 

 guttatis vegetis atro-rubris 7-8 * 6 ; cystidiis uullis ; stipite sursum 

 leviter teuuato, solido, glabro, albo, 8 cm. longo 1 cm. crasso. 



Hah. ad truncum emortuum prope Guanajay, Cuba (Earle et 

 Wilson). — Pl. cervino affinis. 



3. Pluteus Whiteae Murr., N. Am. Fl. X, p. 132(1917).— Solitarius; pi- 680 

 leo convexo, non expanso nec umbonato, regulari, 5 cm. lato, sicco, 

 minute granulato, aureo-brunneo v. ochraceo-fulvo, disco umbrino- 

 avellaneo, raargine integro, concolori, subtiliter striato; carne dulci; 

 lamellis liberis, latiusculis, satis confertis, ex albo salmoneis ; spo- 



ris subglobosis, levibus, roseis, 6-8 [j, diam. ; stipite aequali, levi, 

 glabro, uitido, albo, subcompresso et subtorto, cavo v. farcto^ 7 cm. 

 longo, 8 mm. cr. 



Hah. ad ligna putrida, Bar Ilarbor, Maine, Amer. bor. (W. S. 

 White). 



4. Pluteus Ludovicianus Murrill, Is". Am. FI. X, p. 133 (1917).— So- 681 

 litarius -, pileo tirmulo, e convexo expanso, leviter plicato, 5 cm. 

 lato, glabro, bygropbano, atro-fulvo, sicco pallide fuligineo, mar- 

 gine pallidiore, striato ; lamellis liberis, latis, confertis, ex albo 

 salmoneis, acie integris et concoloribus ; sporis globosis v. subglo- 

 bosis, levibus, roseis, 6-7 (jl d. ; stipitibus e basi subbulbosa sursum 

 tenuatis, levibus, giabris, nitidis, pallidis v. pallide bruuueis, cavis, 



7 cm. longis, 5-8 mm. cr. 



Hab. ad terram in silvulis udis, Chalmette, New Orleans, Lou- 

 isiana, Amer. bor. (F. S. Earle). 



5. Pluteus pallido-cervinus Murrill, N. Am. FI. X, p. 131 (1917).— Pi- 682 

 leo e convexo expanso, non umbonato, regulari, 5 cm. lato ; su- 

 perflcie levi, praecipue sub lente minute tomentosa, pallide isabel- 

 lina, in disco obscure isabellina v. fulva, margine iutegro, conco- 

 lori, non striato ; lamellis liberis, latis, ventricosis, confertis, e 

 albis salmoueis ; sporis subglobosis, levibus, roseis, 7 [x cr. ; sti- 



