Part 1, 1914] AGARICACEAB 45 



1. Lepiota aspratella Murrill, Mycologia 3 : 84. 1911. 



Pileus expanded, often becoming depressed, somewhat umbonate, gregarious, 1-2 cm. 



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broad; surface yellowish-brown, thickly studded with small, granular, somewhat conic warts, 

 which are slightly browner than the rest of the surface; lamellae free, white, much crowded, 

 rather broad, ventricose; spores ellipsoid or ovoid, smooth, hyaline, 5X3.5ju; stipe curved, 

 usually equal, concolorous, floccose-scaly over its entire surface, 2-3 cm, long, 1.5-3 mm. thick; 

 annulus not distinct. 



Type locality: Chester Vale, Jamaica. 



Habitat: On a much decayed log in an orange grove. 



Distribution: Jamaica. 



2. Lepiota amianthina (Scop.) Quel. Ench. Fung. 7. 1886. 



Agaricus amianthinus Scop. Fl. Cam. ed. 2. 2: 434. 1772. 



Agaricus granulosus Batsch, Elench. Fung. 1: 79. 1783. 



Agaricus ochraceus Bull. Herb. Fr. pi. 362. 1787. 



Agaricus croceus Bolt. Hist. Fung. Halifax 2: 51. 1788. 



Agaricus granulosus cinnabarinus Alb. & Schw. Consp. Fung. 147. 1805. 



Agaricus carcharias Pers. Tent. Disp. Fung. 16. 1797. 



Lepiota granulosa S. F. Gray, Nat. Arr. Brit. PL 1: 602. 1821. 



Agaricus granosus Morgan, Jour. Cine. Soc. Nat. Hist. 6: 63. 1883. 



Lepiota pulveracea Peck, Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 54: 144. 1901. 



Lepiota adnatifolia Peck, Bull. N. Y. State Mus. 10: 947. 1902. 



Pileus ovoid to campanulate and expanded, subumbonate, 2-6 cm. broad; surface finely 

 to coarsely granulose, ochraceous to reddish-ferruginous varying to pallid or pinkish; context 

 thin, white or yellowish, often with a disagreeable odor; lamellae free to adnexed or adnate, 

 rather broad, close, white becoming yellowish; spores ellipsoid or sub globose, smooth, hyaline, 

 3-7X2.5-4 m; stipe subequal, slender, fistulose, scaly below the annulus and concolorous, 4-8 

 cm. long, 2-7 mm. thick; veil lacerate, more or less appendiculate. 



Type; locality: Caroiola. 



Habitat: On the ground or on dead wood in woods. 



Distribution : Throughout temperate North America ; also in Europe. 



Illustrations: Barla, Champ. Nice pi. 16, f. 1-11; Bull. Herb. Fr. pi. 362; Cooke, Brit. Fungi 

 pi. 213 {40), 42 {37), 43 {38), 18 {39); Boudier, Ic. Myc. pi. 14-16; Pat. Tab. Fung. /. 610, 611; 

 Hussey, 111. Brit. Myc. 1: pi. 45; Sow. Engl. Fungi pi. 19; Journ. Cine. Soc. Nat. Hist. 6: pi. 3; Gill. 



^xsicc ati :: Ellis &*Ev. N. Am. Fungi 2001; Sydow, Myc. Mar. 1405, 2702; Karst. Finl. Fungi 

 205; Herpell, Prap. Hutpilze 117; Roum. Fungi Gall. 3902; Allesch. & Schn. Fungi Bavar. 234, 

 235; Jacz. Fungi Rossiae 283; Krieger, Fungi Sax. 527, 573. 



II. Pruinosae. Pileus pruinose, fibrillose, pulverulent, or glabrescent, rarely glabrous 

 from the first; cuticle continuous, rarely cracking to form large areoles but never forming scales. 



3. Lepiota rufipes Morgan, Jour. Myc. 12: 156. 1912. 



Pileus slightly fleshy, convex, smooth and glabrous, white, about 1 cm. broad; lamellae 

 broad, close, white, free, approximate; spores oblong, 4-5X3^; stipe slender, smooth, glabrous, 

 rufescent, paler at the summit, 2-3 cm. long; annulus evanescent. 



Type locality: Preston, Ohio. 



Habitat: On the ground among old leaves in woods. 



Distribution: Known only from the type locality. 



4. Lepiota hemisphaerica Murrill, sp. nov. 



Pileus small, rather thick, campanulate to hemispheric, with a prominent, rounded umbo, 

 scattered, 1-1.5 cm. broad; surface uniformly milk-white, unchanging, densely pulverulent, 

 not glabrescent, margin entire, concolorous; lamellae broad, plane, subdistant, yellowish, 

 unchanging; spores irregularly ellipsoid, appendiculate, smooth, hyaline, 4X2/*; stipe very 

 slender, equal, pruinose to subglabrous, white with a. rufous tint, slightly darker on drying, 

 2-3.5 cm. long, 1-1.5 mm. thick; veil slight, evanescent. 



Type collected on the ground in mixed woods among dead leaves and sticks at Unaka Springs, 

 Tennessee, August 18-24, 1904, W. A. Murrill 879. 



Distribution : Known only from the .type locality. 



