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Galera grisea Earle, Inform. An. Estac. Centr. Agron. Cuba i : 



237. 1906. (Type from Cuba.) 

 Galera cubensis Earle, Inform. An Estag. Centr. Agron. Cuba 



1 : 237. 1906. 



This dainty little fungus occurs abundantly on lawns and in 

 manured pastures in temperate regions, and has recently been 

 found to be common about Santiago de las Vegas, Cuba. 



Jalapa, Mexico, W. A. & Edna L. Murrill /jp; Hope Gardens, 

 Jamaica, Earle ^^8; Port Antonio, Jamaica, W. A. & Edna L. 

 Murrill 22^, 24^; Cuba, Earle 42, 4^, 55, 54, pp, 100, loi, I2(), 

 ^^4> 359 > 3^0, s/2, Underwood & Earle 11 22; British Hon- 

 duras, M. E. Peck; Grenada, Broadzvay. 



2. Conocybe Hypnorum (Batsch) 



Galera Hypnorum (Batsch) Quel. Champ. Jura Vosg. 105. 1872. 



This tiny species is of wide distribution in temperate regions, 

 occurring among mosses on grasses in shaded localities. The cap 

 is conic, striate, variable in color, usually some shade of yellow- 

 ish-brown. The spores of the Mexican plants are smaller than 

 in typical temperate specimens, and the pileus is pale-isabelline. 



Jalapa, Mexico, among mosses in a pasture at the edge of a 

 forest, W. A. & Edna L. Murrill lop. 



3. Conocybe echinospora sp. nov. 



Pileus conic to campanulate or convex, umbonate, solitary, 5 

 mm. broad and high ; surface glabrous, dry, striate, fulvous-isa- 

 belline, isabelline on the umbo, margin straight, appressed, entire ; 

 lamellae broad, distant, fulvous-isabelline ; spores broadly ovoid, 

 pointed at one end, minutely echinulate, ferruginous, 7-8 X ASH- 5 

 stipe glabrous, smooth, slightly tapering upward, very pale lateri- 

 ceous, 1-1.5 cm. long, less than i mm. thick. 



Type collected on a clay bank at Cinchona, Jamaica, 5,000 ft. 

 elevation, December 25-January 8, 1908-9, W. A. & Edna L. 

 Murrill 4^4. 



5. Naucoria (Fries) Quel. Champ. Jura Vosg. 99. 1872 



In this genus the lamellae are adnexed or adnate, the stipe 

 cartilaginous, and the margin inrolled when young, usually lack- 



