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Ground. Near Minneapolis, Minn. May. Mrs M. S. Whet- 

 stone. Also Cedar Point, Ohio. July. C. K. Brain. 



The umbo in the dried specimens sometimes appears blackish. 

 The tomentum of the lower part of the stem binds together par- 

 ticles of earth and causes the stem to appear thickened at the 

 base or deeply rooted in the ground. 



Pileus tenuis, campanulatus vel convexus, acute umbonatus, 

 glaber, isabellinus vel subrufescens ; lamellae tenues, subconfer- 

 tae, anteriore latae, adnatae. incarnato-albidae ; stipes tenax, soli- 

 dus, intus albus, ad apicem pruinosus, basi tomentosus, extus 

 cartilaginous ; sporae 6 x 4 fx. 



Pileus 1.2-3 cm latus ; stipes 3-5 cm longus, 2-3 mm crassus. 



Monilia sidalceae 



Widely effused on the lower surface of the leaf, tufts at first 

 white, then brownish ; hyphae very short ; spores oblong elliptic 

 or globose, hyaline, 16-20 x 12-14 /x or 12-14 fx broad. 



Living leaves of S i d a 1 c e a nervataA. Nels. Red Butte 

 canyon, Utah. July. A. O. Garrett. 



Caespites late effusi, hypophylli, albi, brunnescentes ; hyphae 

 brevissimae ; sporae oblongae ellipsoideae vel globosae, hyalinae, 

 16-20 x 12-14 fx, vel 12-14 A 1 latae. 



Nolanea multiformis 



Pileus fleshy, thin, convex nearly plane or centrally depressed, 

 fragile, glabrous or slightly fibrillose, brown or blackish brown, 

 striatulate on the margin which becomes wavy split or irregular 

 when old ; lamellae thin, subdistant, broad, adnate, white becom- 

 ing pink ; stem equal, fragile, flexuous, glabrous or fibrillose. 

 solid or hollow, white or brown; spores subglobose, angular, 

 uninucleate, 10-12x8-10^. 



Pileus 1-3 cm broad ; stem 1-2 cm long, 1-2 mm thick. 



Gregarious. Grassy ground. Brookline, Mass. September. 

 S. Davis. 



This species is apparently allied to Nolanea aethiops Fr. 

 from which it may be separated by the striatulate margin of the 

 pileus, the absence of black dots or points from the top of the 

 stem and by its more globose spores. In the dried specimens 

 the pileus is often plicate. When fresh the stem is sometimes 

 white both at the top and bottom but brown in the middle. 



