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pileus, and, this character being quite constant, the species are easily- 

 distinguished by it. The following synoptic table will show the promi- 

 nent distinguishing characters of the species. 



Color of the pileus not changing with age i 



Color of the pileus changing with age variabile 



I Pileus pale yellow, generally cuspidate cuspidatun^. 



I Pileus yellow, smoky yellow or greenish yellow, obtuse. luteum 



I Pileus salmon color, often cus]oidate salmoneum 



I Pileus dark brown or blackish brown, umbonate peckianum 



Clitopilus cancrinus Fr. 



Rich soil about a manure pile. North Elba. July. 



Nolanea fibrillosa n. sp. 



PLATE I, FIG. 12-19 



Pileus thin, fragile, campanulate or very convex, hygrophanous, brown 

 and striatulate when moist, paler and somewhat shining \vhen dry, fibril- 

 lose; lamellae ascending, close, narrowed behind, adnexed, somewhat 

 ventricose, whitish or palhd, becoming salmon color; stem slender, glab- 

 rous, hollow, pallid; spores longer than broad, uninucleate, angular, 

 .0005-. 0006 of an inch long, .0003-.0004 broad. 



Pileus 6-10 lines broad; stem 2-3 inches long, .5-1 line thick. Damp 

 or mossy ground in woods. Floodwood. September. When dry the 

 pileus is more conspicuously fibrillose than when moist. 



Eccilia sphagnophila n. sp, 



PLATE I, FIG. 20-2.3 



Pileus hemispheric or umbonate turbinate, glabrous, striate on the 

 margin, dark brown ; lamellae broad, distant, very decurrent, whitish, 

 becoming slightly tinged with pink ; stem slender, glabrous, colored like 

 the pileus; spores angular, .0003-.0005 of an inch long, .00024-.0003 

 broad. 



Pileus 4-6 lines broad ; stem 1.5-2 inches long, .5 of a line thick. 

 Marshes among sphagnum. Floodwood. August. Prof. E. A. Burt. 



Hebeloma album n. sp, 



PLATE G, FIG. 1-7 



Pileus fleshy, firm, convex, becoming nearly plane or concave by the 

 margin curving upward, glabrous, subviscid, white or yellowish white, 

 flesh white; lamellae thin, narrow, close, emarginate, adnexed, whitish 



