Naucoria badia Murrill 1917

Naucoria badia Murrill, sp. nov
Pileus firm, drying easily, convex to slightly depressed, gregarious, 2 cm. broad; surface dry, uniformly bay, densely and conspicuously hispid-squamulose, margin concolorous, radiaterugose and plicate; lamellae adnate, broad, subdistant, plane, fulvous, pubescent to serrulate on the edges; spores broadly ovoid, smooth, pale-melleous under the microscope, usually uniguttulate, 7-9 X 6-7 /*; stipe short, tough, subequal, clothed and colored like the pileus, 1 cm. long, 2-3 mm. thick.
Type collected on dead alder in woods at Seattle, Washington, October 20-November 1, 1911, W. A. Murrill 586 (herb. N. Y. Bot. Gard.).
Distribution: Known only from the type locality.