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broad, dirty- white to slightly pinkish ; spores octahedral, irregu- 

 lar, 7-9 fx ; stipe cylindric, paler than the pileus, slightly granular- 

 floccose, 2 cm. long, 1 mm. thick. 



Type collected in a thicket on the bank of a stream near Herra- 

 dura, Cuba, October 14, 1906, F. S. Earle 554. 



3. Eccilia Earlei sp. nov. 



Pileus thin, convex-umbilicate, 2 cm. broad; surface pale-tan, 

 nbrillose-scaly, margin thin, substriate ; lamellae decurrent, dis- 

 tant, broad, subarcuate, yellow to pinkish ; spores irregularly 

 angled, 7-9 /x ; stipe cylindric, hollow, glabrous, dull-yellow, 4 cm. 

 long, 2 mm. thick. 



Type collected on a dead stick on El Yunque, Cuba, 1800 ft., 

 March, 1903, Underwood & Earle 428. 



4. Eccilia jamaicensis sp. nov. 



Pileus thin, convex, umbilicate, solitary, nearly 2 cm. broad; 

 surface smooth, glabrous, blackish, margin entire, concolorous ; 

 lamellae broad, distant, decurrent, straw-yellow ; spores angular, 

 pinkish, 8-10X7^ ; cystidia none ; stipe equal, hollow, flattened 

 on drying, cartilaginous, glabrous, ardesiacous, 2 cm. long, 2 mm. 

 thick. 



Type collected on decayed wood at Chester Vale, Jamaica, 

 3000 ft., December 21-24, 1908, W. A. & Edna L. Murrill 367. 



3. Nolanea (Fries) Quel. Champ. Jura Vosg. 89. 1872 

 This genus has a cartilaginous stipe, free or adnexed gills, and 

 a campanulate cap with straight margin. Berkeley described one 

 species from Bermuda, and reported one of our northern species, 

 N. Bqbingtonii, from Cuba. Several species appear to occur in 

 South America. 



1. Nolanea helicta (Berk.) Sacc. Syll. Fung. 5: 729. 1887 

 Agaricus (Nolanea) helictus Berk. Jour. Linn. Soc. 15: 48. 



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Collected by the Challenger Expedition on rotten leaf-mould in 

 Bermuda. Several type specimens are at Kew. The name re- 

 fers to the twisted stipe. 



