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ellipsoid, smooth, hyaline, uninucleate, apiculate, 7X3.5-4 m", stipe white, glabrous, slightly- 

 tapering upward, 1.5 cm. long, 1-2 mm. thick; annulus slight, evanescent. 



Type locality : Port Antonio, Jamaica. 

 Habitat: In low ground near the coast. 

 Distribution: Jamaica. 



62. Lepiota phaeosticta Morgan, Jour. Myc. 12: 248. 1906. 



Pileus fleshy, subovoid with a blunt apex to expanded, subcespitose, 1-1.5 cm. broad; 

 surface radiate-fibrillose, the cuticle soon separating into very minute, dark scales, which are 

 visible as small black points on the white surface; context very thin, white; lamellae close, 

 white, tapering behind, free and rather remote; spores oblong-ellipsoid, obliquely apiculate, 

 5-6X3-3.5 ju; stipe tapering upward from the clavate base, white, solid, glabrous, 1.5-2 cm. 

 long, 1-2 mm. thick; annulus membranous, persistent. 



Type locality: Preston, Ohio. 

 Habitat: Rotten logs in woods. 

 Distribution: Known only from the type locality. 



63. Lepiota Cultorum (Berk. & Curt.) Sacc. Syll. Fung. 5: 35. 



1887. 



Agaricus (Lepiota) Cultorum Berk. & Curt. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. II. 12: 418. 1853. 



Pileus hemispheric, umbonate, 2.5 cm. broad; surface rough with brown, granular scales; 

 lamellae remote, broad, ventricose; spores cymbiform, acute at the ends, smooth, hyaline, 

 lG/u long; stipe short, furfuraceous, 1.3-2.5 cm. long, 2 mm. thick. 



Type locality: South Carolina. 



Habitat: Among squashes in a garden and in other cultivated grounds. 



Distribution : South Carolina and North Carolina. 



64. Lepiota avellanea Clem. Bot. Surv. Neb. 2: 41. 1903. 



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Pileus fleshy, plane, 5 cm. broad; surface dry, avellaneous, the cuticle lacerate, with 

 appressed, brown scales toward the margin; lamellae remote, attached to an indistinct collar, 

 cream-colored, reddjsh; spores irregularly ovoid, acute at one end, smooth, hyaline, 8-10 X 

 5-6 /x; stipe bulbous, brownish-fibrillose, somewhat hollow, 4 cm. long, 8 mm. thick; annulus 

 small, inferior, concolorous. 



Type locality: Lincoln, Nebraska. 



Habitat: On soil in a greenhouse. 



Distribution : Known only from the type locality. 



65. Lepiota muticolor Murrill, sp. nov. 



Pileus campanulate to expanded, strongly umbonate, gregarious, 2.5-4 cm. broad; surface 

 dry, dark-brown on the umbo, the remainder white, changing to rosy-isabelline on drying, 

 decorated with numerous, small, brownish, fibrillose scales, margin slightly striate; lamellae 

 free, crowded, somewhat ventricose, white changing to fulvous on drying; spores ellipsoid, 

 becoming yellowish-brown, smooth, 8-9 X 6-7 m ," stipe cylindric above, subbulbous at the 

 base, rather tough, subglabrous, white changing to reddish-umbrinous on drying, 3-5 cm. long, 

 about 3 mm. thick; annulus median, fixed, ample, sometimes deciduous, white with a brown 

 margin. 



Type collected on a hickory log in "Palmetto Swamp" near Auburn, Alabama, September 1, 



1899, F. S. Earle. 



Distribution: Known only from the type locality. 



66. Lepiota tepeitensis Murrill, Mycologia 3 : 82. 1911. 



Pileus convex to expanded, slightly umbonate, 3 cm. in diameter; surface white, uneven, 

 fuliginous at the center, adorned with fuliginous, imbricate scales, the remains of the cuticle; 

 lamellae free, white, broad, rather crowded; spores ellipsoid, smooth, pure-hyaline, usually 



