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Mycologia 



Eccilia Housei Murrill 



House's Eccilia 



Plate 7. Figure 6. X 1 



Pileus submembranous, campanulate, becoming deeply de- 

 pressed at the center, cespitose, about 2 cm. broad ; surface 

 blackish with a fumosous tint, radiately furrowed and streaked 

 with paler tints, minutely tawny-fibrillose and roughened but 

 scarcely squamulose, margin somewhat irregular; context very 

 thin, pallid; lamellae narrow, decurrent, rather distant, pallid or 

 slightly yellowish when young, soon becoming salmon-colored; 

 spores ellipsoid, angular, obliquely apiculate, rose-colored, 9-1 1 

 X 6-7 jut ; stipe slender, hollow, grass-green, slightly fibrillose, 2-4 

 cm. long, 2-3 mm. thick. 



Dr. H. D. House, state botanist, collected this species in clay 

 soil in thickets at Green Lake, Onondaga County, New York, 

 June 6, 1914, and referred it to Leptonia euchlora Quel. Its 

 grass-green stipe is very characteristic. 



Leptoniella subserrulata (Peck) Murrill 



SUBSERRULATE-GILLED LEPTONIELLA 

 Plate 7. Figure 7. X 1 



Pileus thin, convex or campanulate, umbilicate, 1.5-3 cm - 

 broad; surface grayish-white, darker colored and squamulose on 

 the umbilicus, margin obscurely striate; lamellae thin, crowded, 

 adnate, at first white, bluish-black and minutely denticulate on 

 the edges ; spores irregular or angular, 10-1 1 X 7-5 usually 

 containing a single large nucleus ; stipe slender, rather long, hol- 

 low, glabrous, whitish or pallid, 5-7.5 cm. long, about 2 mm. 

 thick. 



Described from New York, growing on low ground in woods, 

 and also collected by Miss White in Maine. The gills are white 

 at first, with bluish-black, finely denticulate edges. 



