Eccilia fuliginosa Murrill 1917

Eccilia fuliginosa Murrill, sp. nov
Pileus thin, convex-mnbilicate, not expanding, gregarious, 2-2.5 cm. broad; surface squamulose, fuliginous, striate, the disk more densely squamulose and nearly black in dried specimens, margin entire, concolorous, incurved; lamellae short-decurrent, subdistant, rather broad, several times inserted, pallid to salmon-colored, fuliginous and floccose on the edges; spores ellipsoid, angular, apiculate, 8-10 X 6-7 /i; stipe long and slender, cylindric, glabrous, concolorous, solid, 4^6 cm. long, reaching 2 mm. thick.
Type collected on the ground in wet woods at West Park, New York, August 9, 1903, F. 5. Earle 183S (herb. N. Y. Bot. Gard.).
Distribution: Known only from the type locality.