NEW OR INTERESTING SPECIES OF FUNGI 



BY HOMER D. HOUSE 



Professor Peck's notes, at the time of his illness in the spring of 

 1913, contained the descriptions of the three following new species. 



Inocybe euthelella Peck, n. sp. 



Pileus thin, fragile, convex or expanded, umbonate, fibrillose or 

 sometimes slightly squamulose, brownish tawny; lamellae adnate, 

 sinuate, close, white at first, becoming brownish tawny ; stem slender, 

 equal, stuffed or hollow, shining, colored like the pileus ; spores 

 even, oblong or narrowly elliptical, 10-16 x 6-7/x, cystidia 60-70 x 

 15-20/x; pileus 1-2.5 cm broad, stem 2-5 cm long, .5-1 mm thick. 



Gravelly soil, roadside. South Acton, Mass. August 1912. Simon 

 Davis. A slight violet color is sometimes visible at the top of the 

 stem. 



Pileus tenuis, fragilis, convexus vel expansus, umbonatus, fibril- 

 losus vel aliquando leviter squamulosus, brunneo-fulvus; lamellae 

 adnatae, sinuatae, confertae, primum albae, deinde brunneo-fulvae; 

 stipes gracilis, aequalis, farctus vel fistulosus, nitidus ; pileo similis 

 in colore; sporae leves, oblongae vel anguste ellipsoideae, 10-16 x 

 6-7/u; cystidia 60-70X 15-20/i. 



Clitocybe phyllophiloides Peck, n. sp. 



Pileus thin, 2.5-6.5 cm broad, broadly convex or nearly plane, 

 soon centrally depressed or subumbilicate, glabrous, pure white or 

 sometimes with a slight yellowish tint in the center, flesh white, 

 taste mildly farinaceous, odor none ; lamellae thin, narrow, close, 

 adnate or subdecurrent, white becoming pallid with age ; stem short, 

 equal, solid, white with a white mass of tomentum at the base, 

 2.5-4 cm long, 2-4 mm thick; spores 4-5 x 2-4/u. 



Scattered among fallen leaves in spruce woods, Constableville. 

 C. H. Peck, September 19, 191 1. 



Separated from C . phyllophila because the margin of the 

 pileus does not differ perceptibly in color from the rest of the pileus, 

 nor is the stem hollow, nor the lamellae subdistant nor becoming 

 yellowish. Neither is the base of the stem villose, but is rather 

 spongy-tomentose. The pileus is also sometimes moist becoming 

 more white in drying, while C . p h y 1 1 o p h i 1 a is dry. 



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