j g Dansk Botanisk Arkiv, Bd. 2, Nr. 3. 



not included, as I have not met with any of these. Likewise 

 the species of which Lep. cepcvstipes is the type do not come 

 within the scope of my list; they probably make up a special 

 tribe. 



Setting apart Lepiota mellea in a subgenus (Armillaria) the 

 genuine Lepiotas are divided in three main groups or tribes, 

 according to their macroscopic and microscopic characteristics. 

 For these 3 groups I retain the Friesian names Proceræ x ), Clypeolariæ 

 and Granulosa', but in a somewhat extended and altered sense, 

 as L. naucina (the only species known to me of the Friesian 

 tribe Annulosæ) is transferred to Proceræ, L. acutesquamosa and 

 its allies cut away from the tribe Clypeolariæ, and the species 

 known to me of his fifth tribe, Mesomorphæ, placed in a subtribe 

 within the Granulosæ. 



On the whole the three tribes are very well distinguished, 

 Proceræ by the large ovate spores and the free ring, Clypeolariæ 

 by their filamentose or hairy-felty coating, and Granulosæ by the 

 warty, granular or mealy universal veil, made up (entirely or 

 partly) of subglobular cells. 



The point most open to criticism in this systematic arran- 

 gement is my placing L. acutesquamosa and its allies in the 

 tribe Granulosæ (as a special sub-tribe). They are, in fact, 

 exactly intermediate between Granulosæ and Clypeolariæ, their 

 acute, conical warts being made up partly of subglobose cells, 

 partly of rather filiform hyphæ. 



The way in which minor details (form and size of spores 

 etc.) are used in the key for subdividing the tribes will, I think, 

 require no particular explication. 



Spores etc. of all the species are figured on Plate II. 



x ) In accordance with modern usage the orthography is altered from the 

 original Friesian Proceri etc. 



