Nolanea subpicea Murrill 1917

Nolanea subpicea Murrill, sp. nov
Nolanea picea Peck, Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. SO: 102. 1897. Not N, picea Sacc. 1887.
Pileus thin, varying from broadly conic to convex or nearly plane, often irregular from its crowded or cespitose mode of growth, 3-5 cm. broad; surface smooth, covered with a grayish pruinosity, hygrophanous, blackish when moist, becoming grayish-brown to black when dry, margin thin, even, at first incurved and slightly tinged with red, projecting; context having a fishy odor; lamellae rather crowded, rounded behind, slightly adnexed, often becoming ventricose with the expansion of the pileus, more or less serrate on the edges, whitish, becoming flesh-colored; spores narrowly ellipsoid, 7.5-10 X 5 /iz; stipe equal, often flexuose, stuffed or hollow, reddish-brown or blackish, 2.5-4 cm. long, 2-4 mm. thick.
Type collected among chips in the Adirondack Mountains, New York, September, C. H. Peck (herb. N. Y. State Mus.) .
Distribution : New York and Missouri.