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AGARICACEAE 61 



resembling the scales on the pileus, 4 cm. long, 2-2.5 mm. thick; veil obsolete, not forming an 

 annulus. 



Type locality: Seattle, Washington. 

 Habitat: On the ground in woods. 

 Distribution: Washington. 



77. Lepiota umbrosa Morgan, Jour. Myc. 12: 199. 1906. 



Pileus fleshy, ovoid to campanulate and expanded, subumbonate, 1.5-2.5 cm. broad; 

 surface radiate-fibrillose, white beneath the cuticle, which is tawny-brown, darker in the 

 center, at maturity slightly parted into minute scales, the fibers on the umbo often acutely 

 convergent; context thin, white; lamellae rather narrow, close, white, rounded behind, free, 

 approximate; spores oblong-ellipsoid, obliquely apiculate, 5-6X3 fx; stipe subequal above the 

 bulb, fistulose, fibrous-stuffed, white and smooth above the annulus, floccose-fibrillose and 

 rufescent below, with scattered tawny scales, 4-5 cm. long, 2-4 mm. thick; veil flocculose, 

 partly appendiculate. 



Type locality: Preston, Ohio. 

 Habitat: On the ground in woods. 

 Distribution: Known only from the type locality. 



7%. Lepiota pelidna (Berk. & Mont.) Sacc. Syll. Fung. 5: 67. 1887. 



Agaricus (Lepiota) pelidnus Berk. & Mont.; Mont. Syll. Crypt. 97. 1856. 



Pileus fleshy, ovoid to convex-hemispheric, 7-9 cm. broad; surface furfuraceous, rugose, 

 livid or greenish-livid, margin appendiculate; lamellae adnexed, rather narrow, white then 

 reddish, with pallid edges; spores subglobose, smooth, hyaline, 10// long; stipe bulbous, con- 

 colorous, furfuraceous-scaly, solid, 11-15 cm. long, 1.5-2 cm. thick, the bulb 3-4 cm. thick; 

 annulus apical, concolorous, lacerate. 



Type locality: Columbus, Ohio. 

 Habitat: On logs. 



Distribution: Known only from the type locality. 



79. Lepiota caloceps Atk. Jour. Myc. 8: 115. 1902. 



Pileus fleshy, firm, ovoid to convex or expanded, sometimes broadly gibbous, gregarious, 

 4—8 cm. broad, 3-4 mm. thick; surface wood-brown to tawny-olive when young, often yellowish 

 toward the margin, cracking areolately, showing the white context ; lamellae firm, free, angular 

 behind, crowded, dingy- white, 3-4 mm. broad, eroded on the edges; spores narrowly ellipsoid, 

 obliquely truncate at the base, smooth, hyaline, granular, 6-8X2.5-3 /x; stipe fleshy, cylindric, 

 somewhat bulbous, adorned with patches of the universal veil colored like the pileus, white 

 above, dull-flesh-colored below, both without and within, hollow, 6-10 cm. long, 6-10 mm. 

 thick. 



Type locality: Ithaca, New York. 

 Habitat: Moist woods in a ravine. 

 Distribution: Known only from the type locality. 



80. Lepiota spanista Morgan, Jour. Myc. 12: 198*. 1906. 



Pileus fleshy, ovoid to campanulate and expanded, subumbonate, 3-5 cm. broad; surface 

 radiate-fibrillose, at first continuous, alutaceous to pale-umber, the cuticle at length separating 

 into appressed scales; context thin, white; lamellae rather broad, close, white, approximate; 

 spores oblong-ellipsoid, 8-10X5-6 /*; stipe tapering upward from the thickened base, fistulose 

 fibrous-stuffed, squamulose below the annulus and concolorous, 4—6 cm. long, 5-8 mm. thick; 

 veil lacerate, appendiculate. 



Type locality: Preston, Ohio. 

 Habitat : On rotten wood in woods. 

 Distribution: Known only from the type locality. 



