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5. Hydrocybe cremicolor sp. nov. 



Pileus convex to expanded, umbonate, solitary, 2.5 cm. broad; 

 surface moist, not viscid, glabrous, smooth, uniformly cream- 

 colored; lamellae decurrent, arcuate, distant, bright yellowish- 

 v^hite ; spores ovoid, pointed at one end, smooth, hyaline, 5-6 X 

 3.5-4 /a; stipe fleshy, subequal, smooth, glabrous, cremeous, 5 cm. 

 long, 7 mm. thick. 



Type collected on the ground in woods at Seattle, Washing- 

 ton, October 20-November i, 191 1, W. A. Murrill 568. Plants 

 collected at Berkeley, California, Harper ^0, appear to agree with 

 this species in the main, but are 4 cm. broad, slightly depressed^ 

 and the spores are ovoid, not pointed, 7 X 4 Ai- 



2. Hygrophorus Fries, Gen. Hymen. 8. 1836 



I. Hygrophorus eburneus (Bull.) Fries, Epicr. Myc. 321. 1838. 



One of the most common and abundant species on the Pacific 

 coast. In many localities, I could have gathered a basketful in a 

 very small area. It is edible, and may be recognized by its white 

 color, slimy covering, mild odor, and decurrent, distant gills. 



Mill City, Oregon, Murrill 832, Corvallis, Oregon, Murrill 88^, 

 Salem, Oregon, M. E. Peck; Marin Co., California, Miss East- 

 wood, Mt. Tamalpais, California, Miss Eastwood, Berkeley, Cali- 

 fornia, Harper 18, Stanford University, California, McMurphy 

 jjp. Baker 138, Searsville Lake, California, McMurphy §8. 



2. Hygrophorus variicolor sp. nov. 



Pileus rather thick and fleshy, convex to nearly plane, some- 

 times umbonate, solitary, 5-12 cm. broad; surface smooth, the 

 center moist, subviscid, and glabrous, the margin dry and hispid- 

 scaly, color varying from fulvous at the center to ferruginous- 

 fulvous between center and margin, and stramineous on a mar- 

 ginal zone 1-5 cm. broad ; lamellae squarely adnate, somewhat de- 

 current in large plants, subdistant, inserted, white, waxy, changing 

 to reddish-brown on drying ; spores ovoid, smooth, hyaline, 6-8 X 

 4-4.5 fjL ; stipe fleshy, subequal, white, pulverulent, 4 cm. long, 

 nearly i cm. thick; veil represented by a few short, brownish 

 fibrils at the center of the stipe. 



Type collected on the ground in low woods, near Mill City, 

 Oregon, November 9, 191 1, W. A. Murrill 802. Also collected 



