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sinuate, close, of medium breadth, dull-white to umbrinous ; spores 

 oblong-ovoid, or ellipsoid, smooth, granular with several small 

 nuclei, murinous-umbrinous under the microscope, not opaque, 

 7-9 X 4-4.5 stipe thick, fleshy, cylindric, equal, hollow, creme- 

 ous, glabrous, striate above, smooth below, white at the base, 4 

 cm. long, 1 cm. thick ; annulus large, persistent, sheathing, fixed 

 below, white to discolored, serrate above from contact with the 

 lamellae, attached a little above the center of the stipe. 



Type collected on partly shaded soil in a yam patch in Troy 

 and Tyre, Jamaica, January 12-14, 1909, W. A. Murrill & W . 

 Harris 953. This attractive species much resembles Pholiota, 

 but its spore characters place it in Stropharia. It was found but 

 once. Colored drawings of young and mature stages were made 

 by Mrs. Murrill. 



2. Stropharia floccosa Earle, Inf. An. Estac. Centr. Agron. 

 Cuba 1 : 241. 1906 



Described from several collections in the vicinity of Santiago 

 de las Vegas, Cuba. It occurs on the ground and is usually 

 clustered, having the appearance of Hypholoma. It has not been 

 collected elsewhere. 



3. Stropharia caespitosa sp. nov. 



Pileus fleshy, rather thin, campanulate to convex, cespitose, 

 3-5 cm. broad ; surface dry, pallid with brownish shades, floc- 

 cose-scaly, at length glabrous, rugose ; margin thin, fluted, scarcely 

 striate ; context white with mild, pleasant flavor ; lamellae ad- 

 nexed, crowded, rather narrow, white to pale-purplish-brown; 

 spores generally smooth, ellipsoid, rounded at both ends, decidedly 

 purplish-brown under the microscope, 6-7X3.5-4^, but also 

 quite often oblong-ellipsoid or oblong-ovoid, uniguttulate, 10- 

 12X5^; stipe subcylindric, tapering below, white, densely 

 floccose, hollow, 7-10 cm. long, 5-10 mm. thick; veil white, thick, 

 usually forming a more or less deciduous annulus about 3 cm. 

 from the apex of the stipe. 



Type collected by Van Herman in red clay soil under a house 

 at Santiago de las Vegas, Cuba, September 16, 1904, F. S. Earle 

 204. Known only from the type locality. This species resembles 

 the annulate form of Drosophila appendiculata. 



