=Naucoria vernalis= Pk.--_Naucoria vernalis_ was described by Peck in 23rd Report N. Y. State Mus., p. 91, from plants collected in May. The plants described here appeared in woods in late autumn. The specimens from which this description is drawn were found growing from the under side of a very rotten beech log, usually from deep crevices in the log, so that only the pileus is visible or exposed well to the view. The plants are 4--8 cm. high, the cap 2--3 cm. broad, and the stem 4--5 mm. in thickness. The taste is bitter. [Illustration: FIGURE 150.--Naucoria vernalis. Cap hair brown to clay color; gills grayish brown to wood brown; stem clay color (natural size). Copyright.] The =pileus= is convex, then the center is nearly or quite expanded, the margin at first inrolled and never fully expanded, hygrophanous, smooth (not striate nor rugose), flesh about 5--6 mm. thick at center, thin toward the margin. The color changes during growth, it is from ochraceous rufus when young (1--2 mm. broad), then clove brown to hair brown and clay color in age. The =gills= are grayish brown to wood brown, at first adnate to slightly sinuate, then easily breaking away and appearing adnexed. The =spores= are wood brown in color, oval to short elliptical and inequilateral 6--8 × 4--5 µ. =Cystidia= hyaline, bottle shaped, 40--50 × 8--12 µ. The =stem= is somewhat hollow and stuffed, rather cartilaginous, though somewhat brittle, especially when very damp, breaking out from the pileus easily though with fragments of the gills remaining attached, not strongly continuous with the substance of the pileus. The color is buff to pale clay color; the stem being even, not bulbous but somewhat enlarged below, mealy over the entire length, which may be washed off by rains, striate at apex either from marks left by the gills or remnants of the gills as they become freed from the stem. Base of stem sometimes with white cottony threads, especially in damp situations. In the original description the stem is said to be "striate sulcate." Figure 150 is from plants (No. 3242, C. U. herbarium) collected in woods near Ithaca, October 1, 1899. GALERA Fr.