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cose, slightly eroded, becoming brownish on drying; spores subellipsoid, obliquely appendicu- 

 late, smooth, hyaline, 12-15X5-6 /*; stipe pale-brown, adorned with floccose, chestnut-brown 

 scales below the point of attachment of the veil to the stipe, about 4 cm. long and 2.5 mm. 

 thick. 



Type locality : Ithaca, New York. 

 Habitat: On the ground in low woods. 

 Distribution: New York. 



72. Lepiota acerina Peck, Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 51: 283. 



1898. 



Pileus convex, subumbonate, 1.5-2.5 cm. broad; surface dry, floccose-squamulose, pale- 

 tawny or subalutaceous, brownish on the umbo; lamellae free, crowded, thin, pallid, pruinose 

 when dry; spores oblong or narrowly ellipsoid, very blunt or subtruncate at one end, smooth, 

 hyaline, 8-11X4— 5 ju; stipe equal, concolorous, floccose-squamulose below, stuffed or hollow, 

 2.5-4 cm. long, 4 mm. thick; annulus obsolete. 



Typ# locality : North Elba, New York. 

 Habitat : Prostrate mossy trunks of sugar maple. 

 Distribution : Known only from the type locality. 



73. Lepiota sublilacea Peck, Bull. Torrey Club 24: 139. 1897. 



Pileus thin, convex, obtuse or umbonate, 1.2-2.5 cm. broad; surface dry, floccose-squamu- 

 lose, brownish tinged with lilac ; context white ; lamellae free, subdistant, rather broad, whitish ; 

 spores oblong- ellipsoid, smooth, hyaline, usually uninucleate, 10X5 mJ stipe short, concolorous 

 below, paler at the apex, solid, 1.2-2.5 cm. long, 2-4 mm. thick; annulus slight, evanescent. 



Type locality: Kansas. 



Habitat: On bare ground in pastures. 



Distribution: Known only from the type locality. 



74. Lepiota floralis (Berk. & Rav.) Sacc. Syll. Fung. 5: 51. 1887. 



Agaricus {Lepiota) floralis Berk. & Rav. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. II. 12: 418. 1853. 



Pileus becoming plane, 1.3-2 cm. broad; surface adorned with brown, floccose scales, 

 margin striate; lamellae free, distant, thin, ventricose, white; spores oblong, smooth, hyaline; 

 10-13X4-5 fx; stipe slender, attenuate below, concolorous, 0.5-2.5 cm. long, 1 mm. thick, 

 annulus membranous, persistent. 



'Iype locality: South Carolina. 



Habitat: Cultivated grounds. 



Distribution: New Jersey, North Carolina, and South Carolina. 



Hxsiccati: Rav. Fungi Am. 401; Ellis & Ev. N. Am. Fungi. 2002. 



75. Lepiota gracilis Peck, Bull. Torrey Club 26: 63. 1899. 



Pileus thin, convex or bell-shaped, somewhat umbonate, 0.5-1 cm. broad; surface white, 

 the center and the scales formed from the rupturing cuticle blackish-brown; lamellae free, 

 ventricose, crowded, whitish; spores broadly ellipsoid, 6-7 X4 n\ stipe long, slender, floccose or 

 fibrillose, blackish-brown, 2.5 cm. long, scarcely more than 1 mm. thick; annulus membranous, 

 persistent, conspicuous, blackish-brown on the lower surface. 



Type locality: Ehnsdale, Canada. 

 Habitat: Black humus in woods. 

 Distribution : Canada and Michigan. 



76. Lepiota subfelina Murrill, Mycologia 4: 234. 1912. 



Pileus thin, convex to expanded, distinctly umbonate, solitary, about 2 cm. broad; surface 

 dry, white, densely covered with small, latericious, imbricate scales, the umbo bay, with stri- 

 gose-tomentose covering; lamellae free, rather broad, plane, close, white; spores oblong- 

 ellipsoid, smooth, hyaline, 8X4 n; stipe very slender, slightly tapering upward, white and finely 

 fibrillose above, avellaneous with a rosy tint below, and decorated with latericious fragments 1 



