NEW OR INTERESTING SPECIES OF GILL FUNGI 
FROM MISSOURI 
L. 0. OVERHOLTS 
Formerly Rufus J. Lackland Fellow in the SE Shaw School of Botany 
of Washington Universit 
The following collections of gill ne made by the writer 
in the vicinity of St. Louis, Missouri, within the past two years 
are believed to be undescribed. 
Claudopus subnidulans Overholts, n. sp. 
Pileus sessile, reniform or dimidiate in outline, convex, 
0.5-2 em. broad, bright tawny orange, fibrillose-tomentose, 
dry; margin inrolled, even or very slightly striate; flesh thin, 
white; odor and taste none; gills radiating outward from the 
point of attachment of the pileus, medium distant, rather 
broad (3-5 mm.), salmon-colored or dull orange; stem none, 
the pileus attached by a white tomentose base; spores salmon- 
colored, globose, smooth, 5-7» broad; cystidia none. 
On rotten logs in damp woods. Jefferson Barracks, near 
St. Louis, Missouri, October 25, 1913. 
Type collection in Herb. Overholts No. 1460, and врес!- 
mens from this collection are deposited in the herbarium of 
the Missouri Botanical Garden. 
The species resembles C. nidulans, but differs in the con- 
stantly smaller size and the exactly globose spores. 
Panaeolus reticulatus Overholts, n. sp. Plate 6, fig. 1. 
Pileus hemispheric then expanded, sometimes somewhat 
umbonate, 3.5-6 em. broad, between drab and light brownish 
umber when young, usually smoky brown or blackish with 
age, dry, everywhere pitted or when older appearing fibrous- 
recticulate; the margin even, at first incurved then wavy; 
flesh thin, watery, pallid; taste and odor not characteristic; 
gills broadly attached but sometimes sinuate, often separat- 
ing with age, spotted, or in age uniformly black, rather close, 
ANN. Mo. Вот. GARD., Vor. 3, 1916 (195 
