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crowded, often whitish on the edge, pallid to purplish-brown; 

 spores ellipsoid, smooth, 1-2-guttulate, pale-purplish under a 

 microscope, 7 X 3-5 />t ; stipe milk-white throughout, smooth, 

 glabrous, tapering upward, hollow, about 6 cm. long and 5 mm. 

 thick; annulus very large, persistent, median, fixed, funnel- 

 shaped. 



Collected in abundance on rich earth and decayed chips in an 

 opening in woods near Seattle, Washington, October 20-Novem- 

 ber I, 191 1, W. A. Murrill 2^^ {type), 5^7, 604, Zeller 8p, 122. 

 Also collected on the ground among dead sticks in woods at 

 Newport, Oregon, W. A. Murrill Similar to Hypholoma 



appendiciilatum in general appearance, but always furnished with 

 a conspicuous, persistent annulus. 



7. Stropharia bilamellata Peck, Bull. Torrey Club 22 : 204. 



1895 



Pileus fleshy, convex, even, whitish or yellowish, flesh pure- 

 white ; lamellae close, adnate, purplish-brown when mature ; stem 

 short, solid, white, with a well-developed pure-white annulus 

 which is striately lamellate on the upper surface; spores ellip- 

 soid, purplish-brown, ioX5-6/>t. 



Pileus 2.5-5 cm. broad ; stem about 2.5 cm. long, 6-8 mm. thick. 



Described from specimens collected by McClatchie (840) in 

 grass on the streets of Pasadena, California. With the types at 

 Albany, are specimens collected by Braendle at Washington, D. 

 C, which appear to be identical. 



3. Drosophila Quel. Ench. Fung. 115. 1886 



It seems best to separate the genus Hypholoma as ordinarily 

 known into two groups, one containing the densely cespitose 

 species, such as H. sublateritium, which form a natural group, 

 and the other containing H. appendiculatum, H. lacrymahundum, 

 and their relatives. 



I. Drosophila appendiculata Quel. Ench. Fung. 116. 1886 



Hypholoma appendiculatum (Bull.) Quel. Champ. Jura Vosg. 

 115. 1872. 



Hypholoma cutifractum Peck, Bull. Torrey Club 22: 490. 1895. 



