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Mycologia 



4. Stropharia semiglobata (Batsch) Quel. Champ. Jura Vosg. 



112. 1872 



A widely distributed species, occurring on manure or manured 

 ground. Patouillard reports it from Costa Rica and it probably 

 occurs elsewhere in tropical America at high altitudes, but I 

 have at hand very few collections from that region. At Cin- 

 chona, Jamaica, 5,000 feet elevation, I found the common, 

 slender-stemmed form twice on horse manure (Nos. 561 and 

 638). The spores were ellipsoid, smooth, opaque, umbrinous 

 under the microscope, reaching 18 X 12 /*. 



At the same place and on the same substratum, I found a larger 

 form with thicker stipe and more slender spores (No. 449), which 

 may he briefly described, as follows : pileus hemispheric to top- 

 shaped, solitary, 3.5 cm. broad, 2 cm. thick; surface smooth, viscid, 

 shining, nearly melleous ; lamellae stramineous, soon colored by 

 the spores, which are oblong-ellipsoid, smooth, opaque, of enor- 

 mous size, umbrinous, 21 X 9 p', stipe cylindric, equal, smooth, 

 viscid, shining, nearly melleous, 5 cm. long, 5 mm. thick ; annulus 

 glutinous, pale-yellowish. 



5. Stropharia cubensis Earle, Inf. An. Estac. Centr. Agron. 



Cuba 1 : 240. 1906 



A large and handsome plant described from half a dozen col- 

 lections in pastures and manured places about Santiago de las 

 Vegas, Cuba. Earle remarks that it is the commonest Cuban 

 species. Collected also in Porto Rico, E. G. Britton & D. W. 

 Marble 748 and Bruce Fink 899, 1955; and in British Honduras, 

 Morton E. Peck. 



6. Stropharia bermudiensis (Mass.) 



Hypholoma bermudiense Mass. Kew Bull. Misc. Inf. 1899 : 184. 

 1899. 



Described from specimens collected on the ground at St. 

 George's, Bermuda, by Cummins and said to be allied to Stro- 

 pharia aeruginosa but distinguished by its thin pileus and coarsely 

 serrate gills. The pileus is smooth, pale-ochraceous, aeruginous 



