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5-10 mm. broad, glabrous, radiate-striate, orange-red; lamellae 

 yellow; stipe slender, glabrous, red. 



10. Pluteus jamaicensis sp. nov. 



Pileus thin, expanded, obtuse, subcespitose, 1-3 cm. broad; 

 surface dark-brown, paler with age, rugose, crustose-areolate, 

 not striate ; lamellae free, subcrowded, broad, ventricose, white to 

 pink ; spores globose, smooth, 4 /x ; cystidia none ; stipe enlarged 

 above and below, solid, glabrous expect at the base, which is con- 

 spicuously whitish-tomentose, 2 cm. long, 2 mm. thick. 



Type collected on rotten wood at Castleton Gardens, Jamaica, 

 October 28, 1902, F. S. Earle 220. The dried plants resemble 

 closely the faded type specimens of P. laetifrons at Kew, but 

 the two species are very dissimilar in a fresh condition. 



11. Pluteus tephrostictus (Berk. & Curt.) Sacc. Syll. Fung. 



5: 669. 1887 



Agaricus (Pluteus) tephrostictus Berk. & Curt. Jour. Linn. Soc. 

 10: 289. 1868. 



Collected by Wright on the under side of old logs in Cuba. 

 The types at Kew are in poor condition. Pileus 1.2 cm. broad, 

 umbonate, white, covered with a black, glandular pubescence. 



12. Pluteus aethalus (Berk. & Curt.) Sacc. Syll. Fung. 

 5:674. 1887 



Agaricus (Pluteus) aethalus Berk. & Curt. Jour. Linn. Soc. 10: 

 289. 1868. 



Described from plants collected by Wright on rotten wood in 

 Cuba. Pileus date-brown, less than 1 cm. broad; spores globose, 

 5 fx. Two small type specimens are preserved at Kew. 



Cuba, Wright 50; Tepeite Valley, Mexico, W. A. & Edna L. 

 Murrill 471. 



Doubtful Species 

 Pluteus leoninus (SchaefL) Quel. Champ. Jura Vosg. 82. 

 1872. A temperate species reported from Guadeloupe by Duss } 

 but specimens not examined. 



5. Entoloma (Fries) Quel. Champ. Jura VosJ. 83. 1872 

 Rhodophyllus Quel. Ench. Fung. 57. 1886. 



