Murrill: Illustrations of Fungi 



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sometimes splitting with age, gregarious, reaching 10 cm. broad; 

 surface dry, glabrous, somewhat rimose, flavous over the whole 

 surface when young, becoming dark-luteous at the center and 

 flavous or cream-colored toward the margin ; context thin, white 

 or yellowish ; lamellae adnate, becoming slightly sinuate and seced- 

 ing, rather crowded and narrow, lemon-yellow when young, be- 

 coming flavo-luteous with age, brownish on drying; spores sub- 

 globose, smooth, hyaline, 5-7 \x ; stipe long, equal, longitudinally 

 striate, glabrous, lemon-yellow, fleshy, firm, 14 cm. long, 2-2.5 cni - 

 thick. 



An attractive yellow species described by Peck in 1873 from 

 Bethlehem, New York, as Agaricus flavescens, but this name had 

 already been assigned to a species of Agaricus by Wallroth forty 

 years before. It has 'been found on and about old pine stumps in 

 New York, Massachusetts, and North Carolina. So far as I 

 know, it has not been tested for edibility. The photograph was 

 made from plants collected by Dr. Thompson and myself at Stock- 

 bridge, Massachusetts, October 3, 191 1. 



Melanoleuca eduriformis Murrill 



Rather-tough Melanoleuca 



Plate 6. X 34 



Pileus rather thin, becoming expanded or slightly depressed, 

 gregarious to subcespitose, reaching 10 cm. broad; surface smooth, 

 glabrous, polished, hygrophanous when wet, not viscid, isabelline 

 to fulvous, scarcely darker at the center ; margin concolorous, some- 

 what lobed ; context white, with fragrant odor and very pleasant, 

 mealy to nutty flavor ; lamellae sinuate, rather narrow, crowded, 

 white, unchanging ; spores ellipsoid, smooth, hyaline, 5-6 x 2-3 jx ; 

 stipe larger above or below, rather irregular, pale-yellowish, white 

 at the apex, smooth, glabrous, hollow, 8 cm. long, 1.5-2 cm. thick. 



Described and known only from specimens collected in moist 

 leaf-mold in the New York Botanical Garden, August 29, 191 1. 

 The illustration is from these specimens, which were not tested for 

 edibility. 



Galerula Hypni (Batsch) Murrill 

 Moss-loving Galerula 



Plate 7. X 1 



Pileus thin, membranous, subcohic or campanulate, obtuse or 



