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stipe rather tough, attenuate below, white and pruinose at the apex, dark-brown to blackish 

 below, 5 cm. long, 2.5 mm. thick; annulus powdery, evanescent. 



Type locality: Ithaca, New York. 

 Habitat: On the ground in woods. 

 Distribution: Known only from the type locality. 



21. Lepiota purpureoconia Atk. Jour. Myc. 8: 116. 1902. 



Pileus very thin, convex, scattered, 1-2 cm. broad; surface whitish, but covered with a 

 heliotrope-purple, powdery substance that forms the universal veil; context white tinged 

 with yellow; lamellae close but free, rounded, rather distant, broad, stout, white, tinged 

 with yellow; spores ellipsoid, smooth, hyaline, 8-10X3-4 u; stipe fleshy, even, whitish, covered 

 with heliotrope-purple powder below the annulus, solid; annulus evanescent. 



Type locality: Ithaca, New York. 



Habitat: On the ground in woods. 



Distribution : Known only from the type locality. 



22. Lepiota solidipes Peck, Bull. N. Y. State Mus. 5: 647. 1899. 



Pileus fleshy, very convex or subhemispheric, becoming broadly convex or nearly plane, 

 5-10 cm. broad; surface smooth, glabrous, white, sometimes with a slight pinkish tint; context 

 white, taste and odor farinaceous; lamellae thin, free, crowded, white; spores globose or sub- 

 globose, smooth, hyaline, 4^5 fx\ stipe equal, at times somewhat bulbous, white or whitish, 

 silky-fibrillose, solid, 5-10 cm. long, 8-16 mm. thick; annulus large, thin, membranous, slightly 

 floccose externally, subevanescent. 



Type locality: Saratoga, New York. 

 Habitat: Damp or swampy ground. 

 Distribution: Known only from the type locality. 



23. Lepiota naucina (Fries) Quel. Champ. Jura Vosg. 35. 1872. 



Agaricus (Lepiota) naucinus Fries, Epicr. Myc. 16. 1838. 



Agaricus (Lepiota) naucinoides Peck, Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 29: 66. 1876. 



Pileus very fleshy, subglobose and obtuse to convex and subexpanded, subumbonate, 

 gregarious, 4-9 cm. broad; surface white or slightly yellowish, commonly smooth and glabrous.. 

 but sometimes with the thin cuticle broken up into very minute fibrillose scales ; context thick, 

 white; lamellae rather broad, close, free, white, slowly changing to pinkish-brown or smoky- 

 brown with age; spores ovoid-ellipsoid, apiculate, uniguttulate, hyaline or faintly pinkish, 

 7-9X5-6/*; stipe tapering upward from the clavate base, fistulose or fibrous-stuffed, white, 

 smooth and glabrous or becoming slightly fibrillose toward the base, 5-12 cm. long, 0.5-1.5 cm. 

 thick at the apex, 1-3 cm. thick at the base; annulus thin, membranous, white, persistent. 



Type locality: Europe. 



Habitat: Grassy grounds, pastures, and roadsides. 



Distribution: Eastern United States, westward to Kansas and California; also in Europe. 

 Illustrations: Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 48: pi. IP; Atk. Stud. Am. Fungi /. 79, 80; Mcllv. 

 Am. Fungi pi. 15; Vitt. Descr. Funghi Mang. pi. 40; Gill. Champ. Fr. pi. 37 (428). 



III. Striatae. Pileus thin, squamulose, conspicuously long-striate. 



24. Lepiota cretacea (Bull.) Morgan, Jour. Myc. 13: 3. 1907. 



Agaricus cretaceus Bull. Herb. Fr. pi. 374. 1787. 



Agaricus luteus With. Bot. Arr. 3; 344. 1792. 



Agaricus cepaestipes Sow. Engl. Fungi pi. 2. 1795. 



Hiatula fragilissima Berk. & Rav. Ann. Nat. Hist. II. 12: 422. 1853. 



Agaricus (Lepiota) subremotus Berk. & Curt. Ann. Nat. Hist. III. 4:1. 1859. 



Agaricus (Lepiota) sordescens Berk. & Curt. Jour. Linn. Soc. 10: 283. 1868. 



Agaricus (Lepiota) cheimonoceps Berk. & Curt. Jour. Linn. Soc. 10: 283. 1868. 



Lepiota cepaestipes Quel. Champ. Jura VdSg. 35. 1872. 



Lepiota farinos a Peck, Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 43: 35. 1890. 



Lepiota mammaeformis Underw. Bull. Torrey Club 24: 82. 1897. 



? Lepiota Earlei Peck, Bull. Torrey Club 25: 368. 1898. 



Lepiota xylophila Peck, Bull. Torrey Club 34: 97. 1907. 



Pileus thin or submembranous, at first subovoid with an obtuse apex, then campanulate 



