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der a microscope, 7-8 X 3-5-4 ) stipe equal, cremeous above, 

 pale-fulvous below, smooth, fibrillose, 4-7 cm. long, 5-8 mm. 

 thick; veil slight, citrinous, membranous in young stages, soon 

 breaking into fibrils and leaving no annulus. 



Collected on dead stumps and logs in woods near Seattle, 

 Washington, October 20-November i, 191 1, W. A. Murrill 2p8 

 (type), 4p6. 



7. Gymnopilus calif ornicus (Earle) 



Flammula calif ornica Earle, Bull. N. Y. Bot. Card. 2 : 342. 1902. 



Described from specimens collected by Baker in grassy places 

 under trees, probably from buried wood, at Stanford University, 

 December 5, 1901. 



Stanford University, California, Baker Miss Patterson 75. 



8. Gymnopilus Hillii sp. nov. 



Pileus slightly convex, umbonate, cespitose, 2-4 cm. broad; 

 surface smooth, dry, glabrous, raw-sienna, brown to buff at the 

 center; margin thin, even; context very thin, yellowish, mucilag- 

 inous to the taste, odor not characteristic; lamellae adnate or 

 emarginate, crowded, inserted, rather broad, falcate, yellowish to 

 fulvous ; spores ovoid, smooth, fulvous, 6 X 3-5-4 stipe flexed 

 because of its lateral position on the trunk, equal, glabrous, um- 

 ber-brown to slightly blackish below, lighter above, hollow, 2.5-4 

 cm. long, 2-5 mm. thick. 



Type collected on rotten logs and stumps at New Westminster, 

 British Columbia, April 23, 1905, Albert 1. Hill 7. 



9. Gymnopilus fulvellus (Peck) 



Flammula fulvella Peck; Macoun, Fur Seals North Pac. Pt. 

 III. 584. 1899. 



Pileus thin, convex or nearly plane, glabrous, subtawny, the 

 margin deflexed or incurved, flesh whitish; lamellae thin, sub- 

 distant, adnate or slightly decurrent, somewhat tawny, inclining 

 to ochraceous-tawny ; stem equal, solid, fibrillose or fibrillose- 

 squamulose, colored like the pileus; spores ellipsoid, i2.5X7-5/>t. 



Pileus 1.2-2.4 cm. broad; stem about 2.5 cm. long, 3-4 mm. 

 thick. 



Described from dried specimens collected on low ground, St. 

 Paul Island, Bering Sea, September, 1896, by J. M. Macoun. 



