106 JOUKNAL OF THE MlTCHELL SoCIETY [Mavch 



pearing waxy when dried ; but slightly decurrent, Vliitish when young 

 becoming salmon' to reddish brown when dried, 3 mm. or less long 

 becoming shorter toward margin and stem, 0.15-0.35 mm. wide, 10-12 

 to a sq. mm.; spores ovoid, hyaline, echinulate, 4-5 x 4.5-5. 5/^. wide; 

 hyphae of trama colored yellowish brown, smooth, thin-walled, col- 

 lapsing when dried, not recovering in KOH, scarcely separable in 

 KOH, closely interwoven, branching, variable in width, 3.5-9/* wide, 

 septate, segments very irregular, no clamp connections detected ; odor 

 strong of fenugreek. 



"Type collected at Chapel Hill, IST. C, on ground in woods. Battle's 

 Park,^ September 19, 1908. W. C. Coker" (U. K C. Herb. :^o. 

 47a). 



5. Phellodon EUisianus Banker 



Plate 29. 



Plants small, gregarious, sometimes connate, in rather dry sandy 

 soil in woods. Cap up to 1.5 cm. in diameter, usually 1-1.3 cm., de- 

 pressed in center, the margin plane or curved ; surface smooth except 

 for the faint inherent radiations and a central area of spumy tissue 

 which is lighter, faintly zonate, grayish-brown, about a blackish chest- 

 nut brown, and while wet irridescent with fine deep purple and green 

 tints. Plesh tough and leathery, less than 0.5 mm. thick, with a dis- 

 tinct odor of fenugreek, much like that of Phellodon amicus but more 

 agreeable. 



Spines very short and distant, slender, pointed, elongating from 

 nothing near the sterile margin to about 0.6 mm. near the stem, 

 slightly clecurrent, covered all over with a fine, frosty puberulence 

 which also covers the cap surface between them; a grayish salmon- 

 brown color and lightest at the margin. 



Stem central, tough, smooth, solid, about color of cap, turning 

 almost black when wet after drying, about 5-6 mm. long and 1.5 mm. 

 thick, slightly enlarged at the ground. 



Spores hyaline, subspherical, minutely echinulate, 3.5iu. in diameter. 



This is a very distinct little species which was described by Banker 

 from plants collected by Ellis in ISTew Jersey. Our plants are the only 



