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182 Peck: NEw SPECIES OF FUNGI 
Marasmius Copelandi 
Pileus thin, tough, broadly convex, glabrous, tawny, taste and 
odor strong, unpleasant; lamellae few, unequal, distant, adnate, 
pallid ; stem slender, tough, hollow, velvety pubescent and brown 
below, paler and less densely pubescent above ; spores subfusiform, 
more sharply pointed at one end, 12-15 long, 4 » broad. 
Pileus 1-2 cm. broad; stem 4—6 cm. long, I—2 mm. thick. 
On dead leaves of Quercus densiflora. Woodside, California. 
December. E. B. Copeland. 
It is related to IZ. perforans. 
Clavaria myceliosa 
Stem slender, solid, irregularly branched above, tawny, with an — 
abundant mycelium which forms whitish, branching strands among 
decaying leaves and twigs; branches short, divergent or wide 
spreading with few branchlets, colored like the «stem, the ultimate 
branchlets mostly acute, whitish; spores subglobose, 4 / long. 
Scattered or gregarious, 1-2.5 cm. tall, stems about .5 mm. thick. 
Among fallen leaves and twigs under redwood trees. Moun- 
tains near Stanford University, California. December. E. B. 
Copeland. 
The abundant rhizomorphoid mycelium is a marked feature of 
this species. The plant is inodorous but has a slight peppery 
taste. It is allied to our eastern C. pusilla, but it is a smaller, 
more slender plant with the slender stem branched above only, 
and with the few short branches more widely spreading. 
Helvella Stevensii 
Pileus somewhat saddle-shaped, the two lobes deflexed, sub- 
orbicular, free, white, becoming yellowish or creamy yellow with 
age and brown in drying, under surface persistently white, eve, 
pruinose velvety ; stem terete, even, solid or stuffed, occasionally 
hollow in large specimens, pure white, pruinose velvety above ; a5¢t 
cylindric ; spores even, broadly elliptic, 20 long, 12 broae 
usually containing a single large nucleus; paraphyses filiform, 
clavate at the apex, colorless. 
Plant 4-5 cm. tall ; pileus 10-20 mm. broad. 
Open woods of oak and hickory. Oakland co., Mich. Juné 
R. H. Stevens. 
Related to H. gracilis and H. Panormitana, but differing fro™ 
both in the pure white color of the young fresh plant. 
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