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ate, margin at first inflexed; lamellae sinuate-adnexed, broad, 

 rather distant, plane, white to ferruginous, with a purplish tint; 

 spores ovoid or ellipsoid, drawn to a point at one side of the base, 

 smooth, pale-yellow under the microscope, 7X4/^; stipe equal, 

 cylindric, curved, milky-white, glabrous, 5 cm. long, 2 mm. thick ; 

 veil fibrillose, clinging to the young margin, soon evanescent. 



Type collected on dead wood in a rnoist virgin forest at Jalapa, 

 Mexico, 5,000 ft. elevation, December 12-20, 1909, W. A. & Edna 

 L. Murrill 161. 



9. Naucoria hepaticicola sp. nov. 



Pileus hemispheric to convex, gregarious, i cm. broad; sur- 

 face dry, glabrous, smooth, not striate, fulvous; lamellae adnate, 

 plane or slightly arcuate, broad, distant, inserted, melleous to ful- 

 vous ; spores ovoid, somewhat irregular in outline, pointed at one 

 end, smooth, uninucleate, melleous, 7-9 X ASl^ '■> stipe curved, 

 tapering upward, glabrous, smooth, cartilaginous, 1.5 cm. long, 

 2 mm. thick above ; veil very slight, fibrillose, evanescent. 



Type collected on and among liverworts on a clay bank near 

 Jalapa, Mexico, 5,000 ft. elevation, December 12-20, 1909, W. A. 

 & Edna L. Murrill i^i. 



10. Naucoria montana sp. nov. 



Pileus hemispheric-umbonate, gregarious, 1-2 cm. broad; sur- 

 face glabrous, striate, light-brown, dark-brown on the umbo; 

 lamellae adnate, broad, of medium distance, heterophyllous; 

 spores pip-shaped, pointed at one or both ends, minutely echinu- 

 late, ferruginous, 9-1 1 X4-5/^; stipe crooked, slender, cylindric, 

 equal, glabrous, brown above, fuliginous below, 3-4 cm. long, 

 1-2 mm. thick. 



Type collected on dead wood at Cinchona, Jamaica, 5,000 ft. 

 elevation, December 25-January 8, 1908-09, W. A. & Edna L. 

 Murrill 621. Also collected on dead wood at Morce's Gap, Ja- 

 maica, December 29, 1908, W. A. & Edna L. Murrill (5/5, and on 

 Sir John Peak, Jamaica, 6,000 ft. elevation, January 5, 1909, 

 W. A. Murrill 819. 



11. Naucoria pellucida sp. nov. 



Pileus thin, conic to plane, umbonate, 7 mm. broad ; surface bay 

 to latericeous on the umbo, testaceous and striate between the 



