Descriptions of New Species of Fungi. 



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Pileo alutaceo-fusco, clepresso; stipite lento, flavo, squamulis glutinos- 

 is aspero; lamellis parce ramosis, postice furcatis, vivide flavis. 



Pileus two to four inches across, depressed sometimes subinfundi- 

 buliform, smooth to the touch like kid leather, buffish brown, or pale 

 snuft color, viscid when moist: flesh rather thin, spongy; gills close, 

 thin slight])' branched, connected b} r veins, decurrent, forked at the 

 base, bright yellow; stem one to two inches high, one third to a half 

 inch thick, tough; yellow, rough with glutinous scales. Distinguished 

 by its bright yellow, very decurrent gills, which are forked behind, 

 but do not anastomose. 



Lactarius calceolus, u. sp. — On the ground in woods. Waynes- 

 ville, Aug. 31, and Sept. 10, 1844. 



Pileo tenui, centro depresso, margine repando, alutaceo, fusco, epi- 

 „ dermide rimosa; stipite curto, coneolori; lamellis perpaucis, distanti- 

 bus, venoso-connexis, decurrentibus, albis. 



Pileus three inches across, thin, arched, so as to present a half ovate 

 form, brown buff, smooth, not viscid, epidermis cracked; flesh white; 

 stem short, half an inch in height and thickness, brown buff, like the 

 pileus; gills white decurrent, half an inch broad, extremely distant, 

 not exceeding twenty, more or less connected by transverse veins or 

 plates, forked near the edge, exuding a mild milky juice. An extremely 

 curious species, remarkable for its few distant gills, and the contrast 

 between the brown buff stems and white gills. The pilei in all the 

 specimens found at present are laterally confluent. It can not be 

 confounded with any known species. 



Marasmius pyrrhocephalus, n. sp. — On the ground in damp woods 

 Waynesville, Aug. 23, 31, 1844. 



Pileo convexo, umbilicato, striato-plicato, rufo; stipite gracili, brun- 

 neo, piloso, sursum pallescente; lamellis ventricosis, breviter adnatis, 

 ex albo alutaceis. 



Pileus two lines across, hemispherical, umbilicate, membranaceous, 

 red brown, smooth, striate; stem one and a half to two inches high, 

 slender, brown, closely velvety below, generally rooting, paler above, 

 more or less densely covered with short pale hairs and meal; mycelium 

 arachnoid white; gills white, at length pale, tancolored, ventricose, 

 shortly ad n ate. Allied to Marasmius haimatocephalus, Mont. Two 

 forms occur, the one smaller and more delicate than the other. 



Marasmius clav^eformis, n. sp. — On dead sticks. Waynesville, 

 May 31, 1844. 



