Gymnopus monticola Murrill 1916

Gymnopus monticola Murrill, sp. nov
Pileus rather thick and tough, convex, broadly umbonate or nearly plane, becoming depressed around the disk, gregarious, 5 cm. broad; surface smooth, glabrous, becoming somewhat striate, pale-isabelline, pale-latericeous on the disk, margin pallid, irregular, becoming upturned and splitting with age: lamellae adnate or sinuate, broad, distant, white to yellowish, latericeous with age: spores ovoid, slightly roughened, hyaline, 7.5-8.5 X 5 ju: stipe enlarged above and below, tough, whitish-pulverulent, cremeous at the apex, latericeous near the base, 5 cm. long, 5 mm. thick.
Type collected on an old log across the trail on Sir John Peak, Jamaica, 1800 m., January 5,
1909, W. A. Murrill 809 (herb. N. Y. Bot. Card.).
Distribution: Known only from the type locality.