Tubaria praecox Murrill 1917

Tubaria praecox Murrill, sp. nov
Pileus convex-umbilicate, gregarious, 5-10 mm. broad; surface dry, silky-fibrillose, paleochraceous, margin thin, entire, concolorous; lamellae long-decurrent, subcrowded, broad, rosy-ochraceous, entire and concolorous on the edges; spores ovoid to ellipsoid, smooth, paleyellowish under the microscope, 8 X 4 /z; stipe somewhat enlarged at the apex, fulvous with a rosy tint, glabrous above, subfibrillose below, tough, solid or with a minute cavity, 2 cm. long, 1 mm. thick.
Type collected in moss by the roadside in the New York Botanical Garden, Tune 15, 1902, F. S. Earle 276 (herb. N. Y. Bot. Gard.).
Distribution : Known only from the type locality.