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Mycologia 
13 - Gyranopilus Earlei sp. nov. 
Pileus rather thick, tough, convex to expanded, cespitose, 3-6 
cm. broad; surface dry, fibrillose and floccose-sciuamose, pale- 
ferruginous ; margin uneven, somewhat fluted, not striate ; context 
mild to the taste, said to be edible when young; lamellae adnate 
or subdecurrent, rather broad, subcrowded, ferruginous, darker 
than the surface of the pileus ; spores ellipsoid, ferruginous, con- 
spicuously punctate, 7-8 X 4-5 IJ - ; stipe cylindric, densely fer- 
ruginous-fibrillose, subconcolorous, solid, tough, horny, nearly 
black within, 4-6 cm. long, 4-8 mm. thick. 
Type collected on cocoanut logs near Port Antonio, Jamaica, 
October 20, 1902, F. S. Earle p. Reported by Earle to be common 
on cocoanut logs and stumps in the vicinity of Port Antonio, and 
said to be edible when young. 
14. Gymnopilus tenuis sp. nov. 
Pileus rather thin, convex to expanded, obtuse, cespitose, 3-10 
cm. broad; surface pale-yellow to ferruginous, dry, fibrillose to 
floccose-scaly, at length subglabrous, margin thin, not striate, often 
uneven and undulate ; lamellae decurrent, crowded, narrow, yellow 
to ferruginous ; spores ellipsoid, ferruginous, minutely punctate, 
7X4 /a; stipe cylindric, slightly fibrillose, ferruginous-brown, 
often whitish at the base, hollow, the rind becoming hard and 
horny on drying, 4-6 cm. long, 3-8 mm. thick ; veil of bright-yellow 
fibers, soon vanishing. 
Type collected on a dead log of Nectandra near Port Antonio, 
Jamaica, November 24, 1902, F. S. Earle 612. Also collected on 
a cocoanut log near Port Antonio, Jamaica, November 23, 1902, 
F. S. Earle ^p4; on dead wood on Cooper’s ranch at the base of 
El Yunque, near Baracoa, Cuba, March, 1903, L. M. Underwood 
& E. S. Earle 1136; and at Soldier’s Road, New Providence, 
Bahamas, September 15, 1904, E. G. Britton 6pp. Broad and 
thin, with narrow, crowded lamellae and minutely punctate spores. 
15. Gymnopilus bryophilus sp. nov. 
Pileus convex, obtuse, gregarious, 2-5 cm. broad ; surface uni- 
formly ferruginous, dry, densely appressed-fibrillose, margin not 
striate; lamellae sinuate with a decurrent tooth, crowded, plane, 
broad, concolorous ; spores subglobose, smooth, pale- ferruginous, 
6X5 /a; stipe cylindric, often eccentric, fibrillose, pale-fuscous, 
fleshy, solid, yellow within, 2-4 cm. long, 3-4 mm. thick. 
