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in Europe, but the drawings strongly suggest Chamaemyces 

 alphitophyllus. 



6. Hygrophorus Fries, Gen. Hymen. 8. 1836 



Lymacium (Fries) Schrot, Krypt. Fl. Schles. 3 1 : 330. 1889. 



This genus in its present limitation includes species provided 

 with a veil, which is glutinous and often inconspicuous. 



1. Hygrophorus subpratensis sp. nov. 



Pileus convex, obtuse, gregarious, 3-4 cm. broad ; surface pale- 

 fuscous when young, becoming pallid or whitish with darker disk, 

 slimy-viscid, not striate, pellicle separable ; context white, unchang- 

 ing, odor and taste mild ; lamellae deeply sinuate, broad, crowded, 

 white ; spores globose or subglobose, smooth, hyaline, 5 /x ; stipe 

 cylindric, equal, slimy-viscid, white, solid but spongy, 3-4 cm. 

 long, 3-4 mm. thick ; veil slimy-viscid, scarcely leaving an annulus. 



Type collected on lawns at Santiago de las Vegas, Cuba, June 

 1, 1905, F. S. Earle 373. Also collected on banana trash in the 

 some locality, June 16, 1904, F. S. Earle 68. 



2. Hygrophorus montanus sp. nov. 



Pileus plane or convex, smooth, depressed, gregarious, 2.5 cm. 

 broad ; surface smooth, viscid, stramineous to isabelline, with a 

 testaceous tint, margin incurved, white, entire ; lamellae adnexed, 

 rather broad, yellowish-white, discolored in blotches on drying, 

 pruinose on the edge ; spores pip-shaped, smooth, faintly yellow- 

 ish, 8-10X4-5^; stipe shining, watery-white, smooth, cylindric, 

 equal, fleshy-fibrous, 4 cm. long, 5 mm. thick; veil very slight, 

 not forming an annulus. 



Type collected on the ground in a trail at New Haven Gap, 

 Jamaica, 5,600 ft. elevation, January 4, 1909, W. A. & Edna L. 

 Murrill 769. 



New York Botanical Garden. 



