Peck: NEW SPECIES OF FUNGI 347 
Entoloma modestum 
_ Pileus thin, campanulate or convex, glabrous, obtuse, hygro- 
phanous, dark smoky-brown and striatulate when moist, isabelline 
or pale grayish-brown when dry; lamellae rather broad, subdis- 
- tant, adnate, at first pallid, then flesh-colored ; stem slender, equal, 
hollow, glabrous, colored like the pileus; spores angular, uninu- 
cleate, obliquely apiculate at one end, 10-14 » long, 8-g p broad. 
Pileus 1.5-2.5 cm. broad; stem 2.5-4 cm. long, 2-4 mm. 
thick ; 
Stow, Massachusetts. May. G. E. Morris and S. Davis. 
Eccilia cinericola 5 
Pileus thin, fragile, glabrous, slightly scabrous, broadly convex, 
becoming expanded and broadly umbilicate or centrally depressed, 
white tinged with yellow, becoming cream-colored with age ;_lam- 
ellae thick, distant, broad, adnate or slightly decurrent, sometimes 
slightly sinuate, white becoming pink, dusted by the spores ; stem 
subcartilaginous, fragile, hollow, slightly enlarged at the top, 
white at first, then colored like the pileus; spores subglobose, 
angular, 10-12 long, 8-10 broad. 
Pileus 1.2-2.5 cm. broad; stem 2-2.5 cm. long, 2 mm. thick. 
Gravelly ground among grasses, specially where coal ashes 
have been lying for a long time. Boston, Massachusetts. June. 
S. Davis. 
Naucoria tabacina bicolor var. nov. 
Scarcely differing from the typical form except in the pileus, 
which with the escape of moisture becomes ochroleucous or a pale 
creamy-white. 
Stow, Massachusets. May. G. E. Morris and S. Davis. 
Agaricus Pattersonae 
Pileus fleshy, firm, convex or nearly plane, glabrous or min- 
utely silky, white or whitish, often mottled with brownish squam- 
ules, flesh firm, white, taste fungoid; lamellae close, free, pink 
becoming blackish-brown or black with age ; stem equal or slightly 
tapering upward, firm, stuffed, bulbous, white or whitish, the er 
nulus white, often rupturing and partly adhering to the margin o 
the pileus ; spores broadly elliptic, 8-9 4 long, 5-6 # broad. 3 
Pileus 6-14 cm. broad; stem 7-12 cm. long, 2-3 cm. t ick. 
Ground under pine and cypress trees. Stanford University, 
Calitornia. January. Miss A. M. Patterson. 
