Crépidote Hygrophane

Crepidotus hygrophanus Murrill, sp. no v
Pileus soft, fleshy, narrowly sessile, dimidiate, convex-plane, attached by a white tuft
of mycelium, gregarious, 1-2 cm. broad; surface whitish, hygrophanous, becoming nearly
fulvous on drying, glabrous, minutely striate over the lamellae, the margin darker, more
glabrous and more conspicuously striate in dried specimens; context mild to the taste; lamellae
broad, not crowded, thin, entire; spores globose, smooth, pale-yellow under the microscope,
usually uniguttulate, 5-6 p.
Type collected on a rotten beech log at Lake Placid, Adirondack Mountains, New York, July 17-29, 1912, W. A. & Edna L. Murrill 236.
Distribution: Known only from the type locality.