Part 1, 1914] AGARICACEAB 59 



uninucleate, 7X4/*; stipe white, glabrous, tapering upward, 4 cm. long, 3 mm. thick; annulus 

 slight, evanescent. 



Type locality: Tepeite River, near Cuernavaca, Mexico. 

 Habitat: In humus in a moist virgin forest. 

 Distribution: Known only from the type locality. 



67. Lepiota hortensis Murrill, sp. nov. 



Pileus strongly convex then expanded, very slightly umbonate, gregarious, reaching 

 8-10 cm. broad; surface dry, fibrillose, dirty-yellowish- white, unchanging, light-brown on the 

 disk, decorated with rather large, light-brown, floccose scales somewhat concentrically ar- 

 ranged; margin rather thick and rounded, concolorous, distinctly striate; lamellae white, 

 unchanging, free, crowded, somewhat ventricose; spores ellipsoid, smooth, hyaline, 8-9X6-7 ju; 

 stipe short, rather tough, solid, subequal, at times slightly enlarged below the annulus but 

 rarely bulbous, white and glabrous above the annulus, brownish and usually fibrillose below, 

 5—7 cm. long, 7—10 mm. thick; annulus median or inferior, convex, ample, brownish. 



Type collected in sandy soil in a garden in Auburn, Alabama, September 2, 1899, Mrs. F. S. 

 Earle. 



Distribution: Alabama. 



68. Lepiota dryophila Murrill, sp. nov. 



Pileus fleshy, fragile, convex to expanded, slightly umbonate, the umbo more distinct in 

 dried specimens, 5-8 cm. broad; surface dry, white with chestnut-brown scales, unchanged on 

 drying, dark-chestnut-brown on the umbo, margin white, faintly short-striate ; context white, 

 unchanging, taste mild; lamellae free, crowded, rather narrow, white, unchanging; spores 

 broadly ellipsoid, smooth, hyaline, granular, 8-9 X 7-8 \i ; stipe equal, often curved, not at all 

 bulbous, floccose-scaly and white above the annulus, brownish and subglabrous below, solid, 

 5-8 cm. long, 6-10 mm. thick; annulus median, brownish, fragile. 



Type collected on an oak log near New Orleans, Louisiana, September 8, 1908, F. S. Earle 120. 

 Distribution : Known only from the type locality. 



69. Lepiota Glatfelteri Peck, Bull. Torrey Club 31: 177. 1904. 



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

 slightly and innately fibrillose, sometimes radiate-rimose on the margin, gray, grayish-brown, 

 or brown, tinged with purple at times, the center usually darker; context white; lamellae free, 

 white or whitish, crowded, lanceolate; spores broadly ellipsoid, smooth, hyaline, 6-8X4^5 fx\ 

 stipe equal or nearly so, firm, white, stuffed or hollow, 4-5 cm. long, 2-4 mm. thick; annulus 

 slight, persistent. 



Type i/^caliTy: St. Louis, Missouri. 

 Habitat: On the ground in woods. 

 Distribution: Known only from the type locality. 



70. Lepiota felinoides Peck, Bull. Torrey Club 27: 610. 1900. 



Pileus thin, convex, subumbonate, 2.5-6 cm. broad; surface purplish-brown or blackish- 

 brown, often darker in the center, becoming squamose by the rupturing of the cuticle ; context 

 white; lamellae thin, free, crowded, white; spores ellipsoid-ovoid, smooth, hyaline, 6-8X4-5 ju; 

 stipe slender, slightly enlarged at the base, white, silky-fibrillose, hollow, 5-8 cm. long, 2-4 

 mm. thick; annulus membranous, persistent, white. 



Type locality: St. Louis, Missouri. 



Habitat: Low shaded ground under vines in woods. 



Distribution: Known only from the type locality. 



71. Lepiota geniculospora Atk. Ann. Myc. 7: 372. 1909. 



Pileus convex to subexpanded, slightly umbonate, reaching 1.5 cm. broad; surface brown, 

 silky, chestnut-brown at the center, the cuticle cracking concentrically into numerous appressed 

 chestnut-brown scales; context light-yellowish-brown after exposure; lamellae white, ventri- 



