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merits of the cream-colored, rather well-developed veil clinging 

 to the margin and forming a small annulus near the apex of the 

 stipe; lamellae sinuate to adnate with decurrent tooth, melleous 

 to ferruginous, of medium breadth and distance, edges very ir- 

 regularly repand and toothed; spores ellipsoid or ovoid, fer- 

 ruginous, rough with conspicuous granular or short-papillate pro- 

 tuberances, 8-9 X 4-5 ; stipe bulbous, hollow, streaked, fibril- 

 lose-striate, cream-colored above, ferruginous below, 6-9 X 1-2 

 cm. 



Described from specimens collected at the base of pine trees 

 at Stanford University, California, Baker 122. Found on logs 

 of Pseudotsuga at Seattle. Closely related to Gymnopilus. 



Seattle, Washington, Murrill 575, 618, Zeller 84, 118, A. M. 

 Parker 2; Glen Brook, Oregon, Murrill 'J48; Searsville Lake, 

 California, McMurphy 104; Stanford University, California, 

 McMurphy i^i, Baker 122. 



9. Hypodendrum Paulet, Icon. 75. 1793 



1. Hypodendrum flammans (Batsch) 



Agaricus flammans Batsch, Elench. Fung. 87. /. 50. 1783. 



Pileus convex, fleshy, cespitose, 2-2.5 cm. broad ; surface lu- 

 teous, decorated with a few floccose, flavous scales, which appear 

 to fall away with age ; veil large, flavous, floccose-fibrous ; lamel- 

 lae adnate ; spores subhyaline, ellipsoid, 4 X 2 ju,, not mature ; stipe 

 rough with floccose, flavous scales, fistulose, firm, 3 cm. long, 

 7 mm. thick. • 



Growing from a knothole near the base of a living trunk of 

 Abies. The specimens are, unfortunately, immature. 

 Glen Brook, Oregon, Murrill 770. 



2. Hypodendrum limonellum (Peck) 



Agaricus (Pholiota) limonellus Peck, Ann. Rep. N. Y. State 

 Mus. 31 : 33. 1879. 



Corvallis, Oregon, Murrill p^i. Growing from a crack in a 

 standing dead trunk of Crataegus in woods. 



3. Hypodendrum oregonense sp. nov. 



Pileus convex, at first circular, becoming one-sided from its 

 position, not umbonate, thick and fleshy, cespitose, reaching 5 cm. 



