Clarkeinda Pileus 3.7 cm, convex with conical umbo, viscid with punctate remains of universal veil, tawny with massicot yellow margins, the latter tawny punctate from remains of veil; gills adnexed or sinu- ate adnate decurrent by a line old gold becoming purple brown, b broad, subdistant; stipe white punctate pruinose above the broad below squarrose scaly, fibrillose with lacerate persistent annulus,/a few light tomentose remains of partial veil ending in a small bulv with gelified volva which now includes particles of soil in the gel Among grasses in potrero Specimens examined Costa Rica : San Jose, Guayabillos 2700 m Rancho redondo Dodge Dodge & Thomas 5370