Illustrations of Fungi 



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Entoloma subjubatum Murrill 



Scaly Entoloma 



Plate 7. Figure 8. X 1 



Pileus convex to expanded, usually somewhat umbonate, be- 

 coming quite irregular with age, gregarious, 5-7 cm. broad ; sur- 

 face dry, imbricate-squamulose, especially at the center, fuliginous 

 when young, usually fading to avellaneous with age, the disk re- 

 maining darker, margin pallid, usually lobed or cracked in older 

 specimens ; context thin, white, without odor, but with a pleasant, 

 nutty-farinaceous taste ; lamellae deeply sinuate, broad, ventri- 

 cose, not crowded, salmon-colored, dark-isabelline in dried speci- 

 mens ; spores ellipsoid, angular, 8-9 X 6-7 fx ; stipe cylindric, equal, 

 slightly twisted at times, whitish or avellaneous, pruinose or fibril- 

 lose, solid, 6-8 cm. long, 1 cm. thick. 



Described from handsome specimens collected by Miss Eaton 

 on the ground in woods in the New York Botanical Garden. It 

 is a rare species, being known only from Massachusetts and 

 southern New York, and resembles Entoloma jabatiim of Europe. 



Eccilia pungens Murrill 



Pungent Eccilia 



Plate 7. Figure 9. X 1 



Pileus convex, not fully expanding, deeply umbilicate, gre- 

 garious, 4-6 cm. broad ; surface smooth, glabrous, hygrophanous, 

 avellaneous, somewhat striate with darker lines, margin incurved, 

 concolorous, at first entire, becoming conspicuously lobed or pli- 

 cate with age ; context thin, pallid, with a sweetish, pungent taste 

 and a distinct odor of chloride of lime ; lamellae short-decurrent, 

 subdistant, arcuate or plane, many times inserted, white to salmon- 

 colored, entire and concolorous on the edges ; spores broadly 

 ellipsoid, angular, apiculate, uniguttulate, rose-colored, 8-10 X 

 7 ix ; stipe equal, compressed, solid, smooth, glabrous, subconcol- 

 orous, 4-5 cm. long, 4-5 mm. thick. 



Known only from specimens collected in woods in the New 

 York Botanical Garden in August, 1915. When fresh, the 

 hymenophores have a sweetish, pungent taste and a distinct odor 

 of chloride of lime. 



