Tubaria alabamensis Murrill 1917

Tubaria alabamensis Murrill, sp. nov
Pileus subcampanulate, obtuse, solitary or gregarious, reaching 1 cm. broad; surface clothed with white, silky hairs when young, becoming glabrous, brown when moist, argillaceous when dry, margin even, or subsulcate on drying ; lamellae long-decurrent, arcuate, subdistant, pale-cinnamoncolored; spores ellipsoid, pale-yellow under the microscope, 8 X 5 ju; stipe tapering downward, white-silky-fibrillose, becoming glabrous, stuffed, 2 cm. long, 1 mm. thick.
Type collected on fragments of wood in fields at Auburn, Alabama, February 17, 1901, F. S. Earle (herb. N. Y. Bot. Gard.).
Distribution: Known only from the type locality.