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Type collected among mosses and humus on the ground in 

 low woods at Mill City, Oregon, November g, 191 1, W. A. Mur- 

 rill 8^j. Also collected in a peat bog near Seattle, Washing- 

 ton, October 20-November i, 191 1, W. A. Murrill 247- 



19. Gymnopilus latus sp. nov. 



Pileus convex to plane, not umbonate, gregarious, wood-loving, 

 reaching 9 cm. broad; surface glabrous, shining, viscid, radiate- 

 lineate, ferruginous-fulvous at the center, ochroleucous on the 

 margin; context rather thin, mild to the taste; lamellae sinuate 

 or adnate, pallid to fulvous, plane, not crowded, rather narrow ; 

 spores ellipsoid, rounded at the ends, smooth, melleous under 

 a microscope, 6X3-5/^; stipe equal, or slightly larger below, 

 dry, smooth, subglabrous, fleshy, white or somewhat yellowish, 

 with yellow or orange mycelium at the base, 5-7 cm. long, 1-1.3 

 cm. thick; veil pale-yellow, membranous in young sporophores, 

 soon breaking into fibrils and disappearing. 



Type collected on a dead deciduous log in woods near Seattle, 

 Washington, October 20-November i, 1911, W. A. Murrill 6jo. 



20. Gymnopilus viridans sp. nov. 



Pileus thick, convex, with large umbo, cespitose, wood-loving, 

 reaching 8 cm. broad; surface dry, ochraceous, becoming green- 

 spotted when handled, with conspicuous light-bay scales sparsely 

 scattered except at the center, where they are rather close to- 

 gether; lamellae adnate, broad, crowded, isabelline to ferru- 

 ginous, edges undulate; spores ellipsoid, obliquely pointed at one 

 end, smooth, ferruginous in mass, 7X3-5At; stipe larger below, 

 longitudinally streaked, concolorous, reaching 6 cm. long, and 

 2 cm. thick. 



Type collected on a burnt coniferous log in an open field near 

 Seattle, Washington, October 20-November i, 191 1, W. A. Mur- 

 rill (55/. Also collected in clusters by the roadside near woods at 

 Green River, King County, Washington, June, 1891, A. M. 

 Parker i. In habit and appearance, the plant resembles Lentinus 

 lepideus and Pholiota aeruginosa. 



21. Gymnopilus foedatus (Peck) 



Heheloma foedatum Peck, Bull. Torrey Club 22 : 202. 1895. 



Described from specimens collected by McClatchie on the 

 streets of Pasadena, California. Similar to G. carbonarius in 

 appearance, but with much darker spores. 



