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smoky-brown, minutely fibrillose, not striate, the disk seal-brown 

 and glabrous ; lamellae free, distant, subcrowded, rather broad, 

 subventricose, heterophyllous ; spores ellipsoid, smooth, uni- 

 nucleate, about 5-5X3-5/^; stipe subcylindric, slightly enlarged 

 above and below, concolorous but paler, glabrous, solid, tough, 

 apex pallid, 6-7 cm. long, 7 mm. thick ; volva thick and fleshy, 

 cup-shaped, distant, bifid, concolorous. 



Collected on the ground in a banana field at Santiago de las 

 Vegas, Cuba, May, September, and October, 1904, F. S. Earle 17 

 {type), 180. 



5. Volvariopsis Earlei sp. nov. 



Pileus fleshy, rather thin, becoming expanded, solitary or gre- 

 garious, 4-5 cm. broad ; surface glabrous, rarely with thin volval 

 patches, white, discolored with age, margin even or slightly 

 striate ; lamellae free, subcrowded, of medium breadth, ventricose, 

 white to pink ; spores ellipsoid, smooth, both nucleate and granu- 

 lar, about 11 X 7 p ; stipe subcylindric, slightly tapering upward, 

 glabrous, pure-white, solid, 5-10 cm. long, 5-8 mm. thick; volva 

 delicate, sheathing, very short, 5-8 mm. in length. 



Collected on the ground in a banana field at Santiago de las 

 Vegas, Cuba, June and September, 1904, F. S. Earle 45 (type), 

 103, 168. No. 103 represents a shorter and heavier form with 

 a more strongly developed volva ; the pileus is also pale-grayish 

 instead of pure-white, but microscopic and other characters agree 

 closely. 



New York Botanical Garden. 



