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6. Hymenogaster candidus, sp. nov. 



Oblong-cylindrical, 3 cm. in diam.; color white; gleba ochraceous; cells 

 large; spores ellipticcil, guttulate, color brown, 10 x 5 /i. 



Type^ No. 49, Harkness Coll. 



Under Pseudotsuga Douglassii, Towle, Placer County, 

 Calif. , May. 



Differing from H. Klotzii in the form of the fungus and 

 in the shape of the spores. 



7. Hymenogaster luteus Vitt. 



Hymenogaster luteus Vitt., Monog. Tub., p. 22, Tab. Ill, fig, 9. 



Peridium very thin, soft and silky, white, then brownish, bright yellow 

 within; spores even, ovate or elliptic, oblong, yellow. (Berk. Outlines Brit. 

 Fung., p. 295.) 



No. 12, Harkness Coll. 

 Under decaying wood, Oakland, Calif., December. 



8. Hymenogaster calosporus Tul. 



Hymenogaster calosporus Tul., Fungi Hypo., p. 70, Tab. X, fig. 4. 



Globosus sat irregularis, saepius depressus aut costato-stilcatus (subtus 

 praesertim), ex albido brunneus et sordidus; peridio tenuivix solubili, humido; 

 lacunis inaequalibus- absque directione, vacuis; septis linea media obscuriore 

 notatis nee scissilibus; pulvinulo subnuUo; sporis lanceolato-acuminatis, satu- 

 rate brunneo-rubiginosis, levibus. 



No. 48, Harkness Coll. 

 In the forest, Towle, Placer County, Calif., May. 



9. Hymenogaster muticus B. & Br. 



Hymenogaster muticus B. & Br., Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist., 2d Ser., Vol. II, 

 p. 267. 



Globose, quite white when young, then tinged with brown and cracked, 

 pale yellow-brown within; spores obovate, oblong, very obtuse. (Berk. Out- 

 lines Brit. Fung., p. 295.) 



No. 64, Harkness Coll. 



Under Sequoias, Taylor's Mills and Mt. Tamalpais, 

 Marin County, Calif., March. 



