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umbo and the margin, dotted over the surface with translucent, 

 gelatinous, pearly-white droplets or specks ; lamellae adnexed, 

 ventricose, distant, pale-testaceous, marked with droplets like 

 those on the surface of the pileus ; spores ellipsoid, finely echinu- 

 late, fulvous, 8X5/^; stipe cylindric, equal, smooth, pallid above, 

 bay below, guttate, i cm. long, 0.5 mm. thick. 



Type collected on dead wood at New Haven Gap, Jamaica, 

 5,600 ft. elevation, January 4, 1909, W. A. & Edna L. Murrill 

 /dj. Whether the dots that cover the surface of this tiny species 

 are the remains of a universal veil as in Tubaria pellucida or are 

 droplets exuded from the plant under conditions of a maximum 

 amount of moisture, it is impossible at this time to say. 



12. Naucoria Sacchari sp. nov. 



Pileus thin, subfleshy, convex to expanded, obtuse, 1-1.5 cm. 

 broad ; surface moist, subviscid, not striate, slightly floccose-scaly 

 to glabrous, pale-fuscous, shading to nearly white on the margin ; 

 lamellae adnate, distant, nearly plane, rather broad, pale-fuscous ; 

 spores smooth, ellipsoid, ferruginous, 10-12 X7-8/x; stipe cylin- 

 dric, hollow, floccose, concolorous, 3-4 cm. long, i mm. thick. 



Type collected on rotting sugar-cane trash at Hope Gardens, 

 Jamaica, October 31, 1902, F. S. Earle ^22. The description 

 is drawn from the very complete notes made by Professor Earle 

 from the fresh specimens. 



13. Naucoria spinulifer sp. nov. 



Pileus hemispheric-umbonate with revolute margin, 2 cm. 

 broad; surface innate-fibrillose, smooth, isabelline, testaceous on 

 the umbo, cremeous at the margin; lamellae adnate, arcuate, of 

 medium breadth and distance, dull purplish-isabelline ; spores 

 ellipsoid, smooth, ferruginous, 5-7X3-5-4^1; cystidia hyaline, 

 flask-shaped with short slender stalk and long cylindric neck, 

 10-15^ thick, 30-50^11 long, including the stalk; stipe curved, cylin- 

 dric, equal, subglabrous, stramineous above, fulvous below, 2.5 

 cm. long, 2.5 mm. thick. 



Type collected on dead wood at Morce's Gap, Jamaica, 5,000 

 ft. elevation, December 30, 1908, W. A. & Edna L. Murrill 705. 



14. Naucoria tepeitensis sp. nov. 



Pileus very thin, convex, gregarious, reaching 12 mm. broad; 

 surface smooth, whitish, hygrophanous, faintly striate over the 



