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lacerate below, hollow, 5 cm. long, 7 mm. thick; veil white, 

 evanescent. 



Type collected in red soil in the Botanic Garden at Santiago 

 de las Vegas, Cuba, January 11, 1906, F. S. Earle 500. Known 

 only from the type locality. Professor Earle's very complete 

 notes are accompanied by two excellent photographs. The 

 species has somewhat the appearance of D. appendiculata and 

 also has cystidia. 



3. Drosophila campestris (Earle) 



Gymnochihis campestris Earle, Inf. An. Estac. Centr. Agron. 



Cuba 1 : 238. 1906. 

 Hypholoma campe-stre Morg. Jour. Myc. 14:30. 1908. 



Described from specimens collected by Earle on Bermuda grass 

 lawns at Santiago de las Vegas, Cuba. 



Cuba, Earle 363. 



4. Drosophila pallidispora sp. nov. 



Pileus thin, irregular, companulate, at length spreading at the 

 margin, gregarious, 3 cm. broad; surface hygrophanous, silky, 

 very faintly striate, at first chestnut, fading to pale-tan, pallid 

 when dry ; context thin, with mild, slightly mawkish taste ; 

 lamellae adnexed, broad, crowded, pale-argillaceous, at length 

 brown; spores oblong-ellipsoid, smooth, almost hyaline under the 

 microscope but with a pale-umbrinous tint, 11-13 X 4-5—5-5 

 stipe slightly tapering upward, fibrillose, white, hollow, 5-6 cm. 

 long, 3-5 mm. thick; veil scarcely appendiculate but forming 

 deciduous floes on the young pileus. 



Type collected in soil in a garden at Herradura, Cuba, August 

 17, 1907, F. S. Earle 572. Known only from the type locality. 



5. Drosophila flocculosa (Earle) 



Gymnochihis flocculosus Earle, Inf. An. Estac. Centr. Agron. 



Cuba 1 : 238. 1906. 

 Hypholoma flocculosum Morg. Jour. Myc. 14: 65. 1908. 



Described from specimens collected by Earle on moist red 

 earth under buildings at Santiago de las Vegas, Cuba. 



Cuba, Earle 136, 144. 



