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5. Lepiota cristatella (Peck) Sacc. Syll. Fung. S: 47. 1887. 



Agaricus cristatellus Peck, Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 35: 163. 1884. 



Pileus thin, convex, subumbonate, 4r~S mm. broad; surface minutely mealy, especially on 

 the margin, white, the disk slightly tinged with pink, margin at times somewhat appendiculate ; 

 lamellae free, rounded behind, crowded, white; spores subellipsoid, smooth, hyaline, 5 y. long; 

 stipe slender, whitish, hollow, 2.5 cm. long, 1 mm. thick; annulus obsolete. 



Type locality : Copake, New York, 



Habitat: Mossy places in woods. 



Distribution: New England to Michigan and south to Missouri. 



6. Lepiota roseicinerea Murrill, sp. nov. 



Pileus convex to subexpanded, with a slight umbo, solitary, 3 cm. broad; surface nearly 

 white with a rosy tint, dry, pruinose, becoming rosy-cinereous on drying, the small, slightly 

 depressed umbo somewhat darker; lamellae crowded, plane, reaching the enlarged apex of the 

 stipe, concolorous when fresh and on drying, except behind where they change to umbrinous; 



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spores ellipsoid, appendiculate, uninucleate, smooth, with a faint yellowish tint, 6-7 X 4 n; 

 stipe very long, tapering upward from a clavate base, fibrillose, subconcolorous, 7 cm. long, 

 1-3 mm. thick above, 8 mm. thick at the base; veil slight, evanescent. 



Type collected on the ground among dead leaves in woods in the New York Botanical Garden, 

 September 9, 1911, W. A. Murrill. 



Distribution: Known only from the type locality. 



7. Lepiota juniperina Murrill, sp. nov. 



Pileus convex to subexpanded, slightly umbonate at times, gregarious, 2.5 cm. broad; 

 surface dry, smooth, whitish tinged with isabelline, pubescent or fibrillose to subglabrous, 

 glabrous on the disk, margin entire, not striate; lamellae narrow, crowded, not ventricose, 

 white, unchanging; spores ellipsoid, appendiculate, smooth, hyaline, 7-8.5X3.5-5/*; stipe 

 tapering upward from a clavate base, smooth, glabrous, white, hollow, 5-7.5 cm. long, 3-6 

 mm. thick; annulus median, ample, persistent, white, attached by the lower edge. 



Type collected on the ground under red cedar trees at EHzabethton, Tennessee, August 7-10, 

 1904, W. A. Murrill 464. 



Distribution: Known only from the type locality. 



8. Lepiota neophana Morgan, Jour. Myc. 12: 248. 1906. 



Pileus fleshy, ovoid to campanulate and expanded, subumbonate, 2-3 cm. broad; surface 

 smooth and glabrous, buff to pale-umber, dark-brown in the center, the cuticle continuous or 

 at maturity sometimes cracking into irregular areolae ; context thin, firm, white, tough ; lamellae 

 broad, close, white, obtuse behind, free, approximate; spores oblong, obliquely apiculate, 

 4-5 X 3 m ; stipe slender, subequal, tough, fistulose, white above the annulus, pale-umber below, 

 with a white-fibrillose cuticle, 3-4 cm. long, 2-3 mm. thick. 



Type locality: Preston, Ohio. 

 Habitat: On the ground in woods. 

 Distribution: Known only from the type locality, 



9. Lepiota lactea Murrill, My cologia 3: 81. 1911. 



Pileus thin, convex, slightly umbonate, solitary, 1-1,5 cm. broad; surface white, smooth, 

 slightly silky, especially near the margin; lamellae. free, crowded, rather broad, plane, white; 

 spores ovoid, regular, smooth, hyaline, 5X3.5/*; stipe white, hollow, subglabrous, tapering 

 upward from an enlarged base, 4 cm. long, 2-5 mm. thick; annulus large, white, persistent, 

 near the middle of the stipe. 



Type locality : Santiago de las Vegas, Cuba. 

 Habitat : On the ground in a banana field. 

 Distribution: Known onlv from the type locality. 



