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Mycologia 



7. Pholiota McMurphyi sp. nov. 



Pileus convex to subexpanded, rather thick and fleshy, scat- 

 tering, 4-8 cm. broad ; surface slimy-viscid, smooth, glabrous, ful- 

 vous at the center, greenish-yellow on the margin; context whit- 

 ish, without characteristic taste or odor ; lamellae adnate, slightly 

 sinuate, broad, plane, close, becoming fulvous with a bay tint; 

 spores ellipsoid, pointed at times, ferruginous under a micro- 

 scope, rough with tubercles or short papillae, averaging I2yiy fx; 

 stipe cylindric, equal, yellowish-white, solid or slightly spongy 

 within, the surface rough with projecting ridges as though fur- 

 nished with several scanty rings, 4-6 cm. long, 1-2 cm. thick; 

 veil white, fibrillose even when young, leaving an annulus con- 

 sisting of a few inconspicuous fibrils. 



Type collected among leaves under oak trees near Searsville 

 Lake, California, December 28, 1902, James McMurphy 11. 



8. Pholiota albivelata sp. nov. 



Pileus thin, convex to plane, slightly umbonate, solitary, ter- 

 restrial, reaching 5.5 cm. broad; surface very slimy-viscid, isa- 

 belline tinted with rose, resembling the color of some species of 

 Gomphidius, the umbo slightly darker; lamellae adnate or slightly 

 sinuate, arcuate, not crowded, becoming fulvous, edges pallid; 

 spores ellipsoid, smooth, melleous under a microscope, 1-2-guttu- 

 late, 9-1 1 X 4-5 /X ; stipe milk-white throughout, glabrous and 

 slightly smaller above the annulus, shaggy at the center, fibrillose 

 becoming subglabrous and rarely yellowish at the base, solid, 

 about 8 cm. long, 7 mm. thick above, 10 mm. thick below ; annu- 

 lus above the middle of the stipe, very ample, milk-white, fixed, 

 persistent, colored above by the spores and furrowed by the 

 lamellae. 



Type collected on the ground in woods near Seattle, Washing- 

 ton, October 20-November i, 191 1, W. A. Murrill 5P'J. Also 

 collected in the same region, 5. M. Zeller 88; at Glen Brook, 

 Oregon, November 7, 191 1, W. A. Murrill ^41; and at Newport, 

 Oregon, November 13, 191 1, W. A. Murrill 1048. 



9. Pholiota ventricosa Earle, Bull. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 2: 341. 



1902 



Pileus very convex, obtuse, cespitose, wood-loving, reaching 8 

 cm. in diameter; surface moist, ferruginous or luteous to dark- 

 ferruginous or latericious, slightly fibrillose-striate, with frag- 



