Rhodosporse 



ECCI'LIA Fr. 



Gr. I hollow out. 



(Plate LXVIII.) 



ECCILIA ATROPUNCTA. 



Two-thirds natural size. 



Stem cartilaginous, tubular (the Ecciiia. 

 tube hollow or stuffed ) , expanded up- 

 ward into the pileus, which is some- 

 what membranaceous and at the first 

 turned inward at the margin. Gills 

 attenuated behind, truly decurrent, 

 becoming more so when the pileus is 

 depressed, and not separating as those 

 of Nolanea. 



Corresponding in structure with 

 Omphalia of the white-spored and 

 Tubaria of the brown-spored series. 

 Allied to Clitopilus in the decurrent 



(Plate LXIX.) 



gills, but separated by the cartilagin- 

 ous, smooth stem. 



E. car'neo-gri'sea B. and Br. 



caro, flesh; griseus, gray. Pileus 

 about I in. broad, gray flesh-color, 

 umbilicate, striate, delicately dotted, 

 margin slightly glittering with dark 

 particles. Stem about \% in. long, 

 slender, fibrous-hollow upward, wavy, 

 of the same color as the pileus, shin- 

 ing, smooth, white-downy at the base. 

 Gills adnato-decurrent, somewhat un- 

 dulated, distant, rosy, the irregular 

 margin darker. Stevenson. 



Spores irregularly oblong, rough, 

 7x5/A Masse e. 



Nova Scotia, Dr. Somers. 



New Jersey, E. B. Sterling, Au- 

 gust, 1897; Eagle's Mere, Pa., common under pines, Mcllvaine. 



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ECCILIA CARNEO-GRISEA, 



Natural size. 



