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Some New Species of Fungi 
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panulate, very strongly and deeply rugose, dull yellow with a 
smoky tint which is darker on the center, flesh white, thin. Gills 
broad (6 mm.), distant, adnate, white. Basidia long clavate, 
50-65x6-8 p, 4-spored. Spores oboval to subelliptical, smooth, 
white, 8-11 x 7-9 p, with a large oil drop. Cystidia clavate to 
subelliptical, very long, arising from the trama of the gills, 
100-180x25-35 p, hyaline, thin walled. Trama of gills broad, 
of flexuous much interwoven threads. Trama of pileus of two 
layers; inner layer floccose; outer layer a palisade layer of long 
clavate cells, 60-100x15-20 //. Stem white, dusky below, fur¬ 
rowed, ventricose, spongy within, then hollow, with a cartila¬ 
ginous rind and with a short root. Taste and odor not marked. 
Ground, South Hill woods, Ithaca, N. Y., July 27, 1902, 
C. O. Smith, C. U. herb. No. 13062. 
Eccilia mordax Atkinson n. sp.—Plants gregarious usually, 
5-7 cm. high, pileus 2-5 cm. broad, stem 3-5 mm. thick. Pileus 
convex, umbilicate, margin inrolled, smooth, dull reddish brown 
or pale chestnut, hygrophanous, tough, rarely cracked radially, 
flesh dirty white, thin. Gills dirty flesh color, adnate to slightly 
decurrent, not crowded. Basidia clavate, 25-30 x 6-8 p, 4-spored. 
Cystidia none. Spores oval, 6-7 x 4-5 p, pale flesh color. Sub- 
hymenium of small cells 4-8 p in diameter. Trama of gills of 
short flexuous cells, 30-60x6-10 p. Trama of pileus floccose, 
homogeneous. Stem same color as cap, cartilaginous, tough, 
fistulose, smooth, often compressed. Taste at first not 
marked, but if a small portion of the plant is swallowed, in fif¬ 
teen to twenty minutes afterward there is a burning sensation in 
the throat which often continues for 24 hours. Ground, Mc¬ 
Gowan’s woods, Ithaca, N. Y., August 1, 1901, C. O. Smith, C. 
U. herb. No. 7593a, and other numbers and localities. 
Eccilia rhodocylicioides Atkinson n. sp.— Plants scat¬ 
tered, or two or three clustered, small 3-5 cm. high, pileus 5-12 
mm. broad, stem 1-2 mm. thick. Entire plant mouse color, gills 
a little paler and slightly tinged with flesh color. Pileus convex, 
umbilicate, fine floccose scales in the center, margin faintly striate, 
thin. Gills arcuate, distant, decurrent, bristling with white cys¬ 
tidia under the hand lens. Basidia clavate-cylindrical, 30 xio- 
1 2.p, 4-spored. Spores quadrate to subquadrate, 8-10//, at¬ 
tached to sterigmata by one of the angles. Subhymenium of 
irregular cells, 10-15 p in diameter. Trama of gills of long large 
interwoven cells. Trama of pileus floccose, outer portion of long 
adpressed cells with smoky content. Stem cartilaginous, hollow, 
above paler than the pileus. McGowan’s woods, Ithaca, N. Y., 
July 23, 1901, J. M. Plolzinger, C. U. herb., No. 7045. 
Eccilia pentagonospora Atkinson n. sp. — Plants scat¬ 
tered, 2-3 cm. high, pileus 5-1.5 cm. broad, stems 1-2 mm. thick. 
Pileus and stem mouse gray to light gray, gills flesh color. 
