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Yunque Mountain, Cuba, March, 1903, L. M. Underwood & F. 

 S. Earle 415. Known only from the type locality. 



9. Drosophila truncatispora sp. nov. 



Pileus becoming slightly convex, not quite fully expanding, 

 regular in shape, not umbonate, solitary or gregarious, 2.5 cm. 

 broad; surface hygrophanous, avellaneous, with pale-isabelline- 

 fulvous, imbricate, floccose scales, which are not very conspicuous 

 but are nevertheless distinct ; margin entire, concolorous ; lamellae 

 adnexed, plane, broad, subdistant, avellaneous to pale-chestnut; 

 spores ovoid with truncate ends, somewhat like a grain of corn 

 in horizontal outline, smooth, purplish-brown under the micro- 

 scope, 1-2-guttulate, 6-7 X 4-5 p ; stipe short, equal, smooth, 

 white, fragile, hollow, 4 cm. long, 3 mm. thick. 



Type collected on rotten wood or humus in a moist river valley 

 at Xuchiles, near Cordoba, Mexico, 450 m. elevation, January 17, 

 19 10, IV. A. & Edna L. Murrill 11 44. Also collected at the same 

 time and in the same locality, W . A. & Edna L. Murrill 1128. 



10. Drosophila atricastanea sp. nov. 



Pileus subfleshy, soft, delicate, broadly campanulate to subex- 

 panded, gregarious, 2-3 cm. broad; surface strongly hygrophan- 

 ous, glabrous, dark-chestnut, becoming pallid when dry except 

 on the disk; margin concolorous, not striate; lamellae adnate, 

 crowded, rather broad, concolorous ; spores broadly ellipsoid or 

 ovoid, smooth, rounded at both ends, very pale purplish-brown 

 with a yellowish tint under the microscope, subtransparent, 6-8 X 

 4-5 p ; stipe subcylindric, white, minutely floccose, hollow, 4-5 cm. 

 long, 2-4 mm. thick; veil said to be wanting, even in young 

 stages. 



Type collected on buried wood in a banana field at Santiago de 

 las Vegas, Cuba, June 17, 1904, F. S. Earle 83. Known only 

 from the type locality. This species is peculiar in having no 

 veil, and the spores are pale and very broad, although not truncate. 



11. Drosophila appendiculata (Bull.) Quel. Ench. Fung. 



116. 1886 



This is a very common edible species, widely distributed in 

 temperate regions. Patouillard reports it common in Guadeloupe. 



