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Mycologia 
19. Gymnopilus hispidellus sp. nov. 
Pileus thin, convex, scattered or subcespitose, 2-4 cm. broad; 
surface pale-ochraceous, fibrillose, often punctate-squamose with 
erect, ferruginous scales, margin not striate ; context slightly bit- 
ter; lamellae adnate, subcrowded, not uniform in breadth, yellow 
to fuscous-ferruginous ; spores ellipsoid, fuscous-ferruginous, 
strongly punctate, 7 X 5 ; stipe cylindric, subfibrillose, concol- 
orous with darker base, solid, 2-4 cm. long, 2-4 mm. thick ; veil 
yellowish, subannulate. 
Type collected on old logs on Cooper’s ranch at the base of 
El Yunque, near Baracoa, Cuba, March, 1903, L. M. Underwood 
& F. S. Earle 42Q. 
20. Gymnopilus hispidus (Mass.) 
Flammula hispida Mass. Jour. Bot. 30; 161. pi. /. 31-33. 
1892. 
Described from specimens collected by W. R. Elliott on decayed 
trunks at Chateau Belair, St. Vincent, West Indies. The pileus 
is ochraceous-fulvous, and conspicuously adorned with erect, 
acute squamules ; the lamellae are broad, subdecurrent, and 
crowded ; and the spores ellipsoid, smooth, ferruginous, 7 X 5 m- 
21. Gymnopilus areolatus sp. nov. 
Pileus thick, fleshy, convex, cespitose, 6-7 cm. broad ; surface 
dry, imbricate-scaly, dirty-orange-yellow, margin entire; context 
yellowish-white, slightly bitter; lamellae adnate, separating from 
the stipe, subcrowded, broad, ventricose, often notched, yellowish- 
ferruginous ; spores ellipsoid, ferruginous, tuberculate, 9-1 1 
X 6-7 jj . ; stipe cylindric, often curved, concolorous or paler, sub- 
glabrous, solid, 3-5 cm. long, 4-6 mm. thick. 
Type collected on a hardwood stump in a field near Santiago 
de las Vegas, Cuba, May 27, 1904, F. S. Earle 36. Also collected 
on a palm stump at the same time and place, F. S. Earle 37; and on 
the base of a palm post at Herradura, Cuba, September 27, 1907, 
F. S. Earle 577. 
22. Gymnopilus pholiotoides sp. nov. 
Pileus firm, fleshy, convex, scattered, 3 cm. broad ; surface 
ochraceous, cracking into scales, margin thin, not striate ; context 
