Part 1, 1914] AGARICACEAE 63 



85. Lepiota fuscosquamea (Peck) Sacc. Syll. Fung. 5: 37. 1887. 



Agaricus (Lepiota) fuscosquameus Peck, Bull. Buffalo Soc. Nat. Sci. 1: 41. 1873. 

 Lepiota concentrica Murriil, Mycologia 4: 235. 1912. 



Pileus rather thick, convex to subexpanded, scarcely umbonate, solitary, 3-5 cm. broad; 

 surface dry, white with yellowish tints between concentric rows of coarse, strigose-floccose, 

 latericious to blackish-brown, raised scales formed from the deeply ruptured cuticle, the 

 unruptured central portion being fuliginous ; margin uneven, eroded, bearing fragments of the 

 fugacious white veil ; lamellae white, free, rather broad and close; spores ovoid, smooth, hyaline, 

 6X3.5 m; stipe tapering upward, decorated with fibrils from the veil, hollow, white above, 

 cremeous to brown and more shaggy below, 7-9 cm. long, 5-15 mm. thick. 



Type locality: Croghan, New York. 



Habitat: On the ground in woods. 



Distribution : Maine to North Carolina and west to Washington . 



86. Lepiota aspera (Pers.) Qu£l. Ench. Fung. 5. 1886. 



Amanita aspera Pers. Syn. Fung. 256. 1801. 



Agaricus acutesquamosus Weinm. Syll. PI. Nov. 1: 70. 1822. 



Agaricus Friesii Lasch, Linnaea 3: 155. 1828. 



Lepiota asperula Atk. Stud. Am. Fungi 82. 1900. 



Lepiota eriophora Peck, Bull. Torrey Club 30: 95. 1903. 



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Pileus fleshy, hemispheric to convex and expanded, obtuse, at times depauperate, usually 

 7-12 cm. broad; surface appressed-tomentose, pale-ferruginous, decorated, especially near the 

 center, with brown, compact, sometimes pointed, wart-like, separable scales; context moder- 

 ately thick, white or yellowish; lamellae rather narrow, closely crowded, sometimes forked, 

 white or yellowish, tapering behind, free, approximate; spores 5-10X2-4 n\ stipe thick, tapering 

 upward from the bulbous base, fistulose or fibrous-stuffed, white and pruinose above the 

 annulus, tomentose or fibrillose-scaly and ferruginous below, usually 8-12 cm. long, 8-12 mm. 

 thick at the apex, and 18-25 mm. at the base; veil usually large, white, membranous, per- 

 sistent, adherent in places to the margin of the pileus and annulate upon the stipe, at times 

 reduced and fibrillose. 



Type locality: Europe. 



Habitat: Rich soil or humus in woods or open places. 



Distribution: Eastern United States to Alabama and west to Iowa and Washington; also in 

 Europe. 



Illustrations: Gill. Champ. Fr, pi. 33 {409), 31 {421); Cooke, Brit. Fungi pi. 14 (24), 1105; 

 Hard, Mushrooms/. 38; Hussey, 111. Brit. Myc. 2: pi. 5; Barla, Champ. Nice pi. 12, f. 4+7; Bull. 

 Chicago Acad. Sci. 7: pi. 2, f. 1; Atk. Stud. Am. Fungi /. 84. 



VI. Procerae. Pileus large, with large scales; stipe glabrous; annulus movable. 



87. Lepiota procera (Scop.) S. F. Gray, Nat. Arr. Brit. PI. 1: 601. 



1821. 



Agaricus procerus Scop. Fl. Cam. ed. 2. 2: 418. 1772. 



Pileus soft, fleshy, ovoid to expanded, umbonate, solitary or gregarious, 8-16 cm. broad; 

 surface radiate-fibrillose and rufescent beneath the cuticle, the cuticle thick, at first smooth 

 and continuous, rufous to umber in color, at length torn asunder, except upon the umbo, into 

 large irregular scales which become scattered and gradually fall away, margin deflexed, silky- 

 fibrillose; context thick, soft, white; lamellae broad, close, white, at times yellowish or pinkish, 

 tapering slightly behind, free, remote; spores ellipsoid or obovoid, apiculate, 1-2-guttulate, 

 12-18X8-12 m; stipe tall, tapering upward from the bulbous base, hollow or fibrous-stuffed, 

 the cuticle thin, flocculose, rufous or brownish, at length drawn apart into minute scales, 

 15-25 cm. long, 8-16 mm. thick, the base 2-3 cm. thick; annulus thick, soft, subcoriaceous, 

 movable, apical. 



Type locality: Carniola. 



Habitat: Meadows, pastures, and open woods. _ 



Distribution : New England to Alabama and west to Nebraska ; also in Europe. 

 Illustrations: Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 48: pi. 18; Atk. Stud Am. Fungi /. 81; Barla, 

 Champ. Nice pi. 9, f. 1-4; Bull. Herb. Fr. pi. 78; Cooke, Brit. Fungi pi. 21 {19); Fries, Sv. Aetl. 



