Marasmiellus juniperinus Murrill 1915

Marasmiellus juniperinus Murrill, sp. nov
Pileus shaped like a finger nail, with a short, very eccentric stipe, firm, opaque, gregarious, reaching 1.5 cm. broad; surface light-brown, glabrous, slightly sulcate, especially toward the margin: lamellae rather broad, firm, twice inserted, not interveined, adnate, white and subdistant when young, becoming very distant and light-brown with age, the interspaces also changing from white to brownish: stipe almost lateral, tough, slightly enlarged upward, pruinose to glabrous, smooth, 1-2.5 mm. long, 0.5-1 mm. thick.
Type collected on the bark of a living trunk of Juniperus harbadensis at Cinchona, Jamaica, December 25-January 8, 1908-9, W. A. & Edna L. Murrill 484 (herb. N. Y. Bot. Gard.). Distribution: Known only from the type locality.