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Mycologia 



spores; spores ellipsoid, smooth, pale-melleous under a micro- 

 scope, 6X3-5-4/^; stipe smooth, glabrous and cremeous at the 

 apex, subconcolorous and shaggy-fibrillose below, 5 cm. long, 4 

 mm. thick. 



Type collected on a bank by the roadside in Preston's Ravine, 

 California, November 25, 191 1, W. A. Murrill and L. R. Abrams 

 Ii6p. Related to G. decoratiis, but not conspicuously decorated, 

 and without cystidia. 



4. Gymnopilus pallidus sp. nov. 



Pileus irregularly convex to plane, umbonate, 3-7 cm. broad; 

 surface dull yellowish-gray, dry, smooth, glabrous, margin in- 

 flexed; context hyaline to grayish, watery, without characteristic 

 taste or odor ; lamellae adnexed, close, broad, falcate, grayish- 

 white to fulvous; spores broadly ellipsoid, smooth, ochraceous- 

 ferruginous under a microscope, fulvous in mass, 8-9 X 3-5-4-5 A*-; 

 stipe stout, pallid, hollow, fibrillose, 3-4 cm. long, 5-7 mm. thick ; 

 veil slight, evanescent, leaving no annulus. 



Type collected on the ground under conifers at New West- 

 minster, British Columbia, March 28, 1905, Albert 1. Hill 6. 



5. Gymnopilus permollis sp. nov. 



Pileus convex, not umbonate, solitary, wood-loving, 7 cm. 

 broad; surface viscid when young, becoming dry, smooth, gla- 

 brous, very soft and pliable to the touch, isabelline; lamellae re- 

 motely sinuate-adnate, rather distant, broad, becoming fulvous; 

 spores ovoid, slightly one-sided, obliquely pointed, minutely 

 roughened, melleous under a microscope, with one lar^ nucleus, 

 II X 6 ytt ; stipe equal, longitudinally striate, white, f urf uraceous 

 at the apex, fleshy, 8 cm. long, 8 mm. thick. 



Type collected on dead wood in a coniferous forest near Seattle, 

 Washington, October 20-November i, 191 1, W. A. Murrill ^46. 



6. Gymnopilus subflavidus sp nov. 



Pileus thin, conic or convex to expanded, umbonate when 

 young, cespitose, wood-loving, 3-5 cm. broad; surface slimy, gla- 

 brous, smooth, melleous with fulvous center, becoming green- 

 spotted when handled, margin entire, strongly incurved ; lamellae 

 citrinous to fulvous, sinuate or adnate, of medium breadth and dis- 

 tance ; spores ellipsoid, rounded at the ends, smooth, melleous un- 



