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lead-color, often with a brownish tinge, center usually darker, 
smooth, not hygrophanous, margin irregular, not striate; 
lamellae narrowly sinuate, crowded, strongly heterophyllous, 
rather narrow, plane or subventricose, cream-color becoming 
tinted with salmon; spores pale salmon, cilipaeal: smooth, 
often with a large central vacuole, about 7 x ; stipe 2-3 
Ceacolorows. on solid, fleshy-fibrous ; aaa white or 
cream-colored, unchanging, taste and odor m 
Foot-hills near Palo Alto, California, March . Ti, 1902, C. 
F. Baker, no. 378. 
Locellina Californica sp. nov. 
In old pastures, solitary; pileus thin, 5-g cm., becoming 
roadly expanded, pale tan-color, the center somewhat 
darker, slightly viscid when young but dry and smooth with 
age, margin entire; lamellae free, becoming remote with 
age, subcrowded, broad, plane or subventricose, pale brown- 
ish-salmon, then light cinnamon; spores rusty brown, irregu- 
larly elliptical, often with a minute oblique apiculus, large, 
17-18 x 8-gy; stipe 6-12 cm. x 5-10 mm., subequal, apex 
discoid, base slightly thickened, minutely tomentulose, especi- 
ally above, cream-color becoming light brownish on drying, 
solid, fleshy-fibrous; volva persisting as a thin, fragile, 
usually three-lobed, basal cup about 1 cm. high; flesh thin, 
white, unchanging, taste and odor mild. 
Foot-hills near Palo Alto, Caters. March 11, 1902, C. 
F. Baker, no. 382. 
This seems to be the first authentic species of this genus to 
be reported from North America. Locellina Starnes Peck, 
Bull Torrey Club, 29: 72, 1902, has a veil and annulus and 
should therefore be excluded. 
Cortinarius speciosus sp. nov. 
Among rotting oak leaves; pileus about 8 cm., convex to 
expanded, obtuse, pale yellow, disc darker, verging toward 
cinnamon, smooth, viscid, margin even; lamellae sinuate- 
decurrent, crowded, strongly heterophyllous, subventricose, 
at first sordid white then purplish, at maturity cinnamon; 
spores cinnamon, irregularly elliptical, ends subacute, 8-9 x 
6; cortina of reddish-brown fibrils attached to the margin 
of the bulb; stipe 5-6 cm. x 1-1.5 cm., strongly and abruptly 
