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and expanded, umbonate, gregarious or cespitose, 5-10 cm. broad; surface white varying to 

 lemon-yellow or orange-yellow throughout, often brownish on the umbo, densely flocculose- 

 scaly and farinaceous, plicate-sulcate on the margin, the cuticle thin, very soon separating 

 into minute scales which are more or less deciduous ; lamellae rather narrow, close, free ; spores 

 ovoid-ellipsoid, hyaline, uniguttulate, 8-1 1 X5-7 /x; stipe arising from the more or less elongate 

 and thickened base, tapering upward, flexuous, hollow, subglabrous above, clothed like the 

 pileus below; 8-16 cm. long, 4-6 mm. thick at the apex, 1-2 cm, thick at the base; annulus thin, 



membranous, subpersistent. 



Type locality: France. 



Habitat: Rich soil in gardens, hot beds, and woods. 



Distribution: Cosmopolitan. 



Illustrations: Bull. Herb. Fr. pi. 374; Bull. N. Y. State Mus. 94: pi. 87; Boudier, Ic. Myc. 

 pi. 19; Cooke, Brit. Fungi pi. 5 (36), 1110, 1103; Gill. Champ. Fr. pi. 35 (414) ; Hard, Mushrooms 

 37; Sow. Engl. Fungi pi. 2. 



25. Lepiota rugulosa Peck, Bull. Torrey Club 27: 15. 1900. 



Pileus thin, submembranous, broadly convex or nearly plane, umbonate, 1.2-2 cm. broad; 

 surface rugulose, at least when dry, whitish, widely striate on the margin; lamellae free, thin, 

 crowded, narrow, whitish; spores ellipsoid, smooth, hyaline, 7.5 X 4 /*; stipe short, equal, 

 whitish, slightly silky, about 2.5 cm. broad and 2 mm. thick; annulus thin, white, persistent. 



Type locality: Washington, District of Columbia, 

 Habitat: Moist grassy places under trees. 

 Distribution: Known only from the type locality. 



26. Lepiota longistriata Peck, Bull. Torrey Club 25: 368. 1898. 



Pileus thin, convex or nearly plane, umbonate, 2.5-5 cm. broad; surface hairy-squamulose, 

 striate nearly or quite to the umbo, whitish or pale-gray, brownish on the umbo; lamellae free, 

 narrow, crowded, minutely floccose on the edges, yellowish- white, becoming darker on drying; 

 spores ellipsoid, smooth, hyaline, 6-7.5 X4-5 p; stipe slender, tapering upward from the thick- 

 ened base, hollow, 5-7.5 cm. long, 2-6 mm. thick; annulus delicate, white, evanescent. 



Type locality: Alabama. 



Habitat: In gardens, on lawns, or in woods. 



Distribution: Alabama, Cuba, and Jamaica. 



27. Lepiota subclypeolaria (Berk. & Curt.) Sacc. Syll. Fung. 5: 



67. 1887. 



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



Pileus ovoid to plane, thin, umbonate, about 4 cm. broad ; surface radiate-striate, floccose- 

 squamose, white, fuscous on the umbo ; lamellae free, remote, distant ; spores broadly ellipsoid, 

 smooth, hyaline, averaging 6X4.3/*; stipe subequal, glabrous, white, 4 cm. long; annulus 

 median. 



Type locality: Cuba. 



Habitat: On roots of trees or dead wood. 



Distribution: Known only from the type locality. 



28. Lepiota noctiphila (Ellis) Sacc. Syll. Fung. 5: 50. 1887. 



Agaricus (Lepiota) noctiphilus Ellis, Bull. Torrey Club 5: 45. 1874. 



Pileus fleshy, cylindric or hemispheric becoming convex or at times depressed, rather 

 broadly umbonate, subcespitose, reaching 2.5 cm. broad; surface dotted, especially on the 

 disk, with fine, blackish scales, which may be easily rubbed off, sulcate-striate on the margin, 

 at length striate nearly to the center ; context thin, white, very thin toward the margin ; lamellae 

 free, rounded behind, subcrowded, serrulate on the edges, white ; spores ellipsoid, smooth, hya- 

 line, about 5 fi long; stipe slender, about 2.5 cm. long, farinose-squamose, loosely stuffed, 

 surrounded by a distinct black line at the base; annulus superior, persistent. 



Type locality: Newfield, New Jersey. 



Habitat: On a bank of earth in an unfinished cellar. 



Distribution: Known only from the type locality. 



