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Mycologia 



inflexed when young, with a shght, stramineous, filamentous, 

 evanescent veil ; context thin, white or stramineous, taste sweetish, 

 odor pleasant ; lamellae squarely adnate or with a short decurrent 

 tooth, plane or arcuate, broad, crowded, inserted, pale-yellow to 

 fulvous ; spores ellipsoid, smooth, fulvous in mass, 7 X 3-4 ; 

 stipe equal or slightly enlarged above, hollow or stuffed, white or 

 •cremeous, adorned below with reddish-brown fibrils, glabrous or 

 granulose at the apex, 5 X 0.2-0.4 cm. 



This species is very common during summer and fall about 

 Lurned stumps in the vicinity of New York City. It is sometimes 

 ■clustered but more often gregarious, and the shining yellowish- 

 brown caps are quite conspicuous. Fries first described the plant 

 in Sweden, and it is known throughout Europe and in the greater 

 part of the United States. 



Russula stricta sp. nov. 



Strict Russula 



Plate 68. Figure 6. X i 



Pileus firm, convex to expanded, becoming depressed at the 

 'center, gregarious, 5 cm. or more broad ; surface dry or slightly 

 moist, glabrous, smooth, isabelline with testaceous and ochraceous 

 hues, the cuticle partly separable ; context thin, white, firm, taste 

 perfectly mild, odor pleasant; lamellae adnate, a few of them 

 forked, pale-cream, close, rather narrow ; spores subglobose, 

 densely and roughly echinulate, hyaline, 6-8 fx long ; stipe fleshy, 

 subequal, smooth, glabrous, pallid, milk-white, polished, 5 cm. 

 long, 10-15 mm. thick. 



The type of this species was collected by W. A. Murrill, June 

 14, 191 1, in thin oak woods on the eastern border of the New 

 York Botanical Garden. Miss Gertrude S. Burlingham has very 

 kindly compared it with known species of the genus. 



Marasmius magnisporus sp. nov. 



Large-spored Marasmius 



Plate 68. Figure 7. X i 



Pileus very thin, tough, convex, at times prominently umbonate, 

 closely gregarious, 1-1.5 cm. broad; surface white to pale-isabel- 

 line with a pinkish tint, glabrous, sometimes slightly striate ; con- 



