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slender, Urm, hollow, colored like the pileiis, pruinose, deeply 

 rooting. 



Plant l'-2' high, pileus 4"-10" broad, stem .5" thick. On rotten, 

 mossy logs in woods. Sandlake and Greig. September. 



Marasmius decuerens n. sj). 



Pileus thin, convex, minutely tomentulose, grayish or tawny; 

 lamellae arcuate-decurrent, subdistant, narrow, tapering toward each 

 end, whitish with discolored edge, interspaces rugose-reticulated ; 

 stem slender, firm, equal, gray, minutely tomentulose. 



Plant subc^spitose, 1-2' high, pileus 4' -6" broad, stem .5" thick. 



Ground in a shaded ravine. Albany Piiral Cemetery. July. 



A species remarkable for the peculiar characters of the lamellae. 

 It is apparently allied to M. clavceformis. 



Makasmius pulcherripes n. s]). 



Pileus membranaceous, campanulate, obtuse, distantly striate, 

 dry, smooth, of a soft maroon or vinous red color; lamellae few, 

 distant, narrow^, ascending, free; stem tough, smooth and shining, 

 brownish-black, clear red at the top. 



Plant l'-1.5' high, -pileus 2"-4" broad, stem not half a line thick. 



Sticks and acerose leaves among moss in woods. Garrisons. 

 June. (Plate 4, figs. 19-22.) 



The transition from the black to the red portion of the stem is 

 sudden and well defined. The free space at the inner extremity 

 of the lamellae is red like the apical part of the stem. 



Marasmius filopes n. sp. 



Pileus membranaceous, convex, distantly and obscurely»radiate- 

 striate, subumbilicate, white ; lamellae few, distant, attached, white ; 

 stem smooth, elongated, thread-like, flexuous, inserted, whitish, 

 sometimes brownish at the base. 



Plant gregarious,l'-1.5" high, pileus about 1 " broad, stem scarce!}^ 

 thicker than hog bristles. 



Fallen leaves of balsam trees, Abies halsdmea. Indian Lake. 

 October. (Plate 4, figs. 27-29.) 



A remarkably slender and delicate species. There are about a 

 half dozen lamellae with now and then an intermediate short one. 



Pantjs salicinus n. sj), 



Pileus firm, thin, convex, defiexed or subpendant, hygrophanous, 

 minutely farinaceo-tomentose, pinkish-gray; lamellae moderately 

 broad and close, converging to an excentric point, dark ferrugi- 

 nous ; stem very short or obsolete, obliquely attached to the vertex 

 of the pileus. s 



