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Mycologia 



Pasadena, California, McClatchie; Claremont, California, 

 Baker. 



8. Pholiota (Fries) Quel. Champ. Jura Vosg. 91. 1872 



1. Pholiota marginata (Batsch) Quel. Champ. Jura Vosg. 94. 



1872 



Muir Glacier, Alaska, Trelease 525. Specimens not seen, but it 

 is doubtful if they represent the plant originally described by 

 Batsch. 



2. PfioLiOTA UNicoLOR (Vahl) Gill. Champ. Fr. i : 436. 1878 



This species is very abundant on dead wood in the Pacific 

 Coast region. It differs from the plants usually known as P. 

 marginata in having broader gills and larger spores, the latter 

 measuring 8-10 X 5-6 /x. 



Seattle, Washington, Murrill 254, 264, 2^8, ^p2, 4^4, ^00, 

 6go, 6^1; Mill City, Oregon, Murrill 820; Corvallis, Oregon, 

 Murrill p//, 1017; Preston's Ravine, California, Murrill & 

 Abrams 12^2, 12^1; La Honda, California, Murrill & Abrams 

 1246, 1282, 130^; Yakutat Bay, Alaska, Trelease 520. 



3. Pholiota subnigra sp. no v. 



Pileus very small for the genus, convex, slightly umbonate, 

 solitary, 1.3 cm. broad; surface smooth, glabrous, slightly viscid, 

 uniformly fuliginous, except on the immediate margin, where it 

 is hoary on account of a pubescence originating from the veil; 

 lamellae sinuate-adnate, ventricose, broad, not crowded, becom- 

 ing fulvous, the edges remaining whitish ; spores irregularly 

 ellipsoid, pointed at the base, 1-2-guttulate, smooth, melleous 

 under a microscope, lo-ii X4-5/^; stipe equal, cylindric, pallid, 

 fleshy, solid, rough with short, soft, whitish, conic scales pointing 

 upward, 2 cm. long, 2.5 mm. thick; veil ample, white, membra- 

 nous, leaving a large, superior, persistent annulus. 



Type collected on the ground in woods, attached to a small 

 buried root, near Seattle, Washington, October 20-November i, 

 191 1, W. A. Murrill 380. 



