Ceriomyces subpallidus

Ceriomyces subpallidus Murrill, sp. nov
Pileus hemispheric, only slightly expanding, 5 cm. broad, 2 cm. thick; surface dry, smooth, glabrous, feeling very much like soft kid, avellaneous-isabelline, not becoming white-spotted nor having a separable pellicle ; margin entire, fertile, the tubes slightly projecting: context milk-white, entirely unchanging, very light in weight, spongy-fleshy; tubes yellow or greenish-yellow within, equaling the thickness of the context, adnate. plane in mass, becoming somewhat depressed next to the stipe, mouths dark-melleous, becoming browner with age, slightly angular, of medium size : spores fusiform, smooth, pale-ochraceous under a microscope from dried specimens, 10-12 X 4-5 /i: stipe cylindric, equal, curved at the base, white, delicately but distinctly reticulate nearly to the base, slightly pruinose, solid, white and unchanging within, about 5 cm. long and 1 cm. thick.
Type collected in Pink Bed Valley, North Carolina, 1000 meters, on the ground in oak-chestnut woods, July, 1908, IV. A. Murrill & H. D. House 63. Distribution : Known only from the type locality.