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Mycologia 



3. Hydrocybe bella (Massee) 

 Hygrophorus b.ellus Massee, Jour. Bot. 30: 161. 1892. 



Type collected on the ground in woods in the Nariaqua Valley, 

 St. Vincent, by W. R. Elliott. A large scarlet species with decur- 

 rent gills and immense ellipsoid spores 18 X 10 fi. 



4. Hydrocybe Cantharellus (Schw.) 

 Agarieus (Omphalia) Cantharellus Schw. Schr. Nat. Ges. Leip- 

 zig, 1 : 88. 1822. 

 Hygrophorus Cantharellus Fries, Epicr. Myc. 329. 1838. 



A very pretty little species, resembling Omphalia but brilliantly 

 colored, common in many varieties from Maine to Alabama and 

 west to Minnesota. The spores of the tropical specimens are ellip- 

 soid, smooth, hyaline, 8-9 X 5 



Castleton Gardens, Jamaica, Earle 22/; New Haven Gap, 

 Jamaica, 5,600 ft. elevation, W . A. & Edna L. Murrill 760. 



5. Hydrocybe Earlei sp. nov. 



Pileus convex, solitary, 3 cm. broad ; surface glabrous, silky- 

 shining, not striate, pale reddish-yellow ; context yellow, mild ; 

 lamellae slightly adnexed, crowded, broad, ventricose, cremeous ; 

 spores globose, smooth, hyaline, 7 /x ; stipe somewhat flattened, 

 equal, hollow, glabrous, shining, pale-yellow, 5-6 cm. long, 4-6 

 mm. thick. 



Type collected on the ground in a pasture at Herradura, Cuba, 

 June 16, 1907, F. S. Earle 562. 



6. Hydrocybe flavolutea sp. nov. 



Pileus convex, solitary, 1.3 cm. broad, 5 mm. high; surface 

 luteous, with faint traces of red, polished, slightly viscid, radiate- 

 striate ; lamellae flavous, slightly ventricose, rather close, several 

 times inserted, apparently free, but really connected by slender 

 threads of tissue across the disk to which the stipe is attached ; 

 spores globose, regular, hyaline, uninucleate, smooth, 4-5 fx ; stipe 

 cylindric, equal, smooth, glabrous, citrinous, whitish-tomentose 

 and slightly enlarged at the base, 2.2 cm. long, 1.5 mm. thick. 



Type collected in soil on a bank at Cinchona, Jamaica, December 

 25-January 8, 1908-9, W . A. & Edna L. Murrill 52 7. Also col- 

 lected at Jalapa, Mexico, December 12-20, 1909, W . A. & Edna 

 L. Murrill 35, no. 



