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4. Pholiota candicans (Bull.) Schrot. Krypt. Fl. Schles. 



608. 1889 



Pholiota praecox (Pers.) Quel. Champ. Jura Vosg. 91. 1872. 



A description and colored figure of this common eastern spe- 

 cies were published in Mycologia for July, 1911. I found it 

 only twice on the Coast. 



Open grassy ground, Seattle, Washington, Murrill jj/; mixed 

 woods, Corvallis, Murrill 1021; Woodside, California, E. B. 

 Cop eland; Yakutat Bay, Alaska, T release 50^, 514, 5/7. 



5. Pholiota anomala Peck, Bull. Torrey Club 22 : 202. 1895 



Pileus at first hemispheric or subconic, then convex, glabrous, 

 hygrophanous, broccoli-brown when moist, pale-yellow or cream- 

 color when dry; lamellae adnate or slightly decurrent, subarcu- 

 ate, pale becoming brownish-ferruginous, often white on the 

 edge; stem cavernous or hollow with irregular transverse par- 

 titions, sometimes containing a cottony tomentum, whitish, with 

 a slight evanescent annulus ; spores ellipsoid, 8-10 X 6-7 fx. 



Pileus 1.5-3.5 cm. broad; stem 4 cm. long, 2-6 mm. thick. 



Described from specimens collected by McClatchie among 

 sticks and leaves on the ground near Pasadena, California, in 

 January. The species suggests Tubaria. 



6. Pholiota washingtonensis sp. nov. 



Pileus convex to applanate or slightly depressed, thin, gregari- 

 ous, cespitose at times, reaching 10 cm. broad; surface hygroph- 

 anous, smooth, glabrous, more or less rugose, pale-isabelline, 

 dull- fulvous at the center, margin striate, rather irregular; la- 

 mellae adnate with a tooth, broad, not crowded, avellaneous, be- 

 coming dark-fulvous; spores irregularly ellipsoid, often plane on 

 one side, pointed obliquely at the base, smooth, ferruginous un- 

 der a microscope, with a single large nucleus, .11 X 6 ; stipe 

 fleshy, streaked, equal or tapering upward, white at the apex, 

 brownish and fibrillose below, 6-8 cm. long, 0.5-1.5 cm. thick; 

 veil ample, white, membranous, leaving a large, superior, per- 

 sistent annulus. 



Collected on the ground in low woods near Seattle, Washing- 

 ton, October 20-November i, 1911^, W. A. Murrill jjj {type), 

 563, S. M. Zeller. 



