Gymnopus earleae Murrill 1916

Gymnopus earleae Murrill, sp. nov
Pileus rather fleshy, convex to subexpanded, cespitose, reaching 2.5 cm. broad; surface moist, smooth, glabrous, dark-brown when young, fading with age or on drying, subzonate at times ; margin estriate, incurved and whitish-tomentose when young, becoming glabrous with age: context shghtly unpleasant to the taste; lamellae almost free, inserted, crowded, darkrosy-isabelline: stipe equal or slightly tapering upward, often compressed, whitish-tomentose to subglabrous, concolorous, the base enlarged and clothed with a tuft of long, strigose, reddishyellow hairs, 2.5-4 cm. long, 2-4 mm. thick.
A ^ Type collected among pine needles, twigs, and chips on moist ground in a creek bottom near Auburn, Alabama, April 22, 1900, Mrs. F. S. Earle fherb. N. Y Bot Gard f Distribution: Known only from the type locality.