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Mycologia 



Distribution : Vicinity of St. Louis, Missouri. 



Excellent type specimens are at Albany, collected at one spot by 

 N. M. Glatfelter (?8?) in September and October, 1900, 1902, and 

 1903. He made good notes on the fresh specimens and sent them 

 to Peck. I have a fine cluster sent me by Dr. Lewis Sherman 

 (35) > w ^o collected it at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in October, 1914. 



4. Atylospora prunuliformis sp. nov. 



Pileus thin, subfleshy, convex, obtuse, gregarious to subcespitose, 

 1 cm. broad ; surface dry, glabrous, rugose, pale-fawn-colored or 

 light-tan-colored, margin concolorous, substriate; context thin, 

 pale-tawny, the taste mild ; lamellae adnate, broad, subdistant, sub- 

 ventricose, white ; spores ellipsoid, sometimes ovoid, smooth, dark- 

 bay under the microscope, about 12 x 6^; stipe cylindric, very 

 slender, glabrous, concolorous, paler and brownish at the apex, 

 hollow, whitish-mycelioid at the base, 5 cm. long, 1 mm. thick. 



Type locality : New York Botanical Garden, New York City. 



Habitat : In sandy soil in mixed woods. 



Distribution : Known only from the type locality. 



Type collected by F. S. Earle (8p) on June 22, 1902. This 

 species much resembles Prunulus, both in a fresh and dried con- 

 dition. 



5. Atylospora australis sp. nov. 



Pileus fragile, expanded, subumbonate, gregarious to cespitose, 

 1-3 cm. broad; surface glabrous, hygrophanous, slightly striate, 

 pale-fawn-colored, slightly darker on the disk; lamellae adnexed, 

 crowded, rather narrow, concolorous, then brownish; spores ellip- 

 soid, smooth, opaque, purplish-brown under the microscope, about 

 8-9 x 5/>t; stipe rigid-fragile, cylindric or slightly tapering above, 

 glabrous or somewhat atomaceous, hollow, pure-white, 4-6 cm. 

 long, 2-3 mm. thick ; veil slight, soon vanishing, white. 



Type locality : City Park, New Orleans, Louisiana. 

 Habitat : On rotten wood or humus. 

 Distribution : Vicinity of New Orleans. 



Type collected by F. S. Earle (27) on September 3, 1908. Said 

 to be common at the time. Also by Earle (117, 118) at Chalmitte, 

 New Orleans, September 8, 1908. 



