Melanoleuca tottenii Murrill 1914

Melanoleuca tottenii Murrill, sp. nov
Pileus firm, convex to nearly plane, regular or slightly lobed, very rigid on drying, reaching 6 cm. broad; surface very smooth, glabrous, pale-grayish-tan with brownish tints in the center and indistinct areas of pinkish-lilac; margin thin, projecting, sharply incurved on drying; context white with a faint rosy tint, very thin except at the center; lamellae deeply sinuate, sometimes separating from the stipe, rather distant, broad, ventricose, toughish to rigid, white, becoming tinged with umbrinous to smoke-colored with age or on drying; spores ellipsoid, smooth, hyaline, 4.5-6.5X3-3.5 /x; stipe rather short and thick, subequal, white with a faint lilac tint, smooth, glabrous, shining, solid or spongy, faintly tinged with rose within, about 3-5 cm. long, 1-1.5 cm. thick.
Type collected on the ground in woods in Battle's Park, north of the cemetery, at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, November 25, 1913, W. C. Coker & H. R. Totten 1008. Also collected in mixed woods in the same vicinity, October 28, 1913, W. C. Coker & H. R. Totten 949.
Distribution : Chapel Hill, North Carolina.