a.) BRIEFER ARTICLES 385 
a Habitat: On side of dead lodgepole pine log, clustered; Foxpark, Wyo- 
ming, alt. 2900 meters, August 13, 1909, no. 709. 
: Entoloma viridans, sp. nov.—Pileus 3.5~-5.5 cm. broad, fleshy, 
__ broadly convex, hygrophanous when moist, gray, margin tinged with 
tose pink and disk becoming dull green, or the coloring may be reversed, 
the disk rose pink and margin a dull green, when dry the whole plant 
_ becomes silky shining: flesh white, becoming dull when dry: margin 
_ turned down, entire, smooth: lamellae all even, light pinkish yellow, 
becoming a salmon pink color, 2 mm. broad, slightly sinuate, adnate 
_ then separating, interspaces venose: stipe fleshy, white, pruinate, 
hollow, round, quite bulbous at base, attenuating upward, 4.5 cm. 
long, 1.5 cm. wide: spores coarsely warted, pink, 7X10». 
Habitat: Damp humus; Brooklyn Lake, Wyoming, alt. 3500 meters, 
_ bank of Nash’s Fork, September 3, 1909, no. 119. : 
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loeophyllum ferrugineum, sp. nov.—Pileus hard, corky to woody, 
oblong-dimidiate to flabelliform, 1-2X2-12X1-1.5 cm.; surface 
azonate, strigose-tomentose, scrupose, dark ferruginous to umbrinous; 
_ Margin rather thick, sterile, tomentose, bright ferruginous: context 
_corky, homogeneous, bright ferruginous, indistinctly zoned, about 
7mm. thick; tubes lamelloid, quite decurrent, tomentose, ferruginous 
but paler than margin of pileus, light grayish within, 1-2 mm. broad, 
2-5 mm. deep; edges somewhat thin, tomentose, undulate; tubes 
lamelloid from the first: spores globose-ellipsoid, smooth, hyaline, 
10-14X7 KB, 
_ Habitat: On dead lodgepole pine and aspen; Cooper Creek, Wyoming, 
alt. 2800 meters, June 22, 1900, no. Ir. 
Clavaria truncata, sp. nov.—Pileate tops bright red, shading into 
reddish orange at top of stipe to dull flesh color at its base: ends truncate, 
convex to plane to somewhat concave, 0. 5~3 cm. broad, smooth: whole 
plant to within a few centimeters of base of stipe covered with a white 
bloom, persisting in dried specimens: flesh creamy, spongy: stipe longi- 
tudinally grooved to base, 3-10 cm. long: spores white, 14X7 #. 
Habitat: Humus soil under balsam and spruce trees; gregarious and 
vitose, 4-6 in a group; Foxpark, alt. 2900 meters, August 8, 1909, no. 66. 
_ Aplant similar to this is described by Fries as Craterellus pistillaris, and 
y others as possibly a variety of Clavaria pistillaris, but in a collection of 
ty specimens found in entirely different localities not one out of the num- 
t was found to have either the color or the form of typical Clavaria pistil- 
Roe Harrison Lovejoy, University of Wyoming, Laramie. 
