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fact that the annulus was movable in the material from which the original 
diagnosis was written in the case of the former species and fixed in the 
latter. While fixed in the growing specimens it tends frequently to become 
loosened in the Philippine material as it dries. The specimens collected 
about Manila also show a considerable variation in the number of flocculent 
scales on the upper surface of the pileus. In some collections made they 
are numerous while in others they are almost entirely lacking. 
First described from material collected in British Guiana. Found so 
far only in the American tropics and the Philippines. 
LEPIOTA FUSCO-SQUAMEA Peck in Rep. State Mus. New York, 25: 50. 
Luzon, Manila, Merrill 9170, July 24, 1918, growing in lawn. 
Cap 8 to 4 cm in diameter, stipe 4 to 5 cm long and 4 mm thick, basidia 
9.5 by 24.5 uw, spores 5 by 11.5 
Previously collected in the United States. 
LEPIOTA MANILENSIS Copel. in Ann. Myce. 3 (1905) 29; Govt. Lab. Publ. 
28 (1905) 145. 
Luzon, Manila, Bur. Sci. 21825 Graff, July 30, 1918, in grass by road- 
side. 
Mature spores of these specimens average 7.5 by 11.5 u, slightly larger 
than those of Copeland’s collection but none reach the size given as the 
dimension of the largest found by him. The stipe is stuffed at first but 
may become hollow at maturity. 
Reported only from the Philippines. 
LEPIOTA PULCHERRIMA nom. nov. 
Lepiota candida Morg. in Journ. Myc. 12 (1906) 202, non Copel. 
Luzon, vicinity of Manila, Sanchez 56, September, 1913, growing on 
lawn. 
Unfortunately Morgan’s name is antedated by L. candida Copel., and, 
what is still more unfortunate, the type of Copeland’s species has been lost. 
There can be little doubt but that this collection represents a form of Mor- 
gan’s species, the only difference being in the size of the spores, those of 
the Manila specimens measuring 4.5 to 5.5 by 7 to 8 « while Morgan’s 
figures are 3 to 4 by 5 to 7 #, and in the surface of the pileus and stipe 
which are more floccose than fibrillose. Copeland’s species is described as 
shining, almost naked and with spores measuring 6 by 9.5 4. The “strongly 
fusiform lower third of the stipe” is characteristic of both Copeland’s and 
Morgan’s specimens as well as the other material under discussion. The 
spores of this collection average half way between the other two in size 
while the surface of the pileus of L. candida Morg., is intermediate in 
character between Copeland’s species and this last Manila collection. It 
seems possible that, could Copeland’s species be reéstablished, his name 
would be the proper one for this fungus. Until this can be done, however, 
it will be necessary to consider them as two distinct species. 
Collected previously in the United States. 
LEPIOTA REVELATA B. & Br. in Journ. Linn. Soc. 11 (1871) 510. 
Luzon, Manila, Bur. Sci. 21824 Graff, July 24, 1913, growing on lawn. 
Collected previously in Ceylon. 
