New species of fungi 



Charles Horton Peck 



Lepiota maculans 



Pileus thin, convex, subumbonate, dry, minutely and densely 

 squamulose, reddish-yellow, the center darker; lamellae broad, 

 subdistant, free, white, gradually changing to red or pink; stem 

 equal, tough, floccose or fibrillose, hollow, whitish or yellowish, 

 the annulus slight, evanescent ; spores elliptic, uninucleate, pointed 

 at the ends, variable In length, 8-12// long, 5-6 ;« broad. 



Pileus 1.5-2 cm. broad; stem about 5 cm. long, 2-3 mm* 

 thick. 



St. Louis, Mo. September. N. M. Glatfelter. 



This is a small but pretty species, easily known by the flesh of 

 both pileus and stem changing to a reddish color where wounded 

 and by the lamellae assuming a reddish or pink color with age or 

 in drying. 



Mycena denticulata 



Pileus thin, subcampanulate or convex, obtuse, glabrous, gray 

 tinged with brown, the cuticle separable ; lamellae rather broad, 

 subdistant, ventricose, decurrent with a tooth, pale-brown, purplish 

 on the edge, usually denticulate ; stem slender, equal, straight, 

 hollow, glabrous, whitish or yellow ; spores elliptic, J-S /i long, 



4-5 fi broad. 



Pileus 12-20 mm. broad; stem 5-7 cm. long, 1-2 mm. thick. 



St. Louis, Mo. August. N. M. Glatfelter. 



Pleurotus umbonatus 



Pileus fleshy, convex, umbonate, fibrillose, subsquamulose, 

 brown or blackish-brown, flesh white, the cuticle sometimes 

 rimose; lamellae broad, subdistant, adnate or slightly decurrent, 

 brownish when dry ; stem eccentric, equal or tapering downward, 

 stuffed or hollow, colored like or a little paler than the pileus ; 

 spores white, subglobose or broadly elliptic, 5-6// long, 4-5// 



broad. 



Pileus 2-y cm. broad; stem 2-4 cm. long, 0.5-1 cm. thick. 



Ground. Kittanning, Pa. October. D. R. Sumstine. 



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