e VoL. 31 No. 4 
'e BULLETIN 
OF THE 
TORREY BOTANICAL CLUB 
APRIL, 1904 
New species of Fungi 
4 CHARLES H. Peck 
_ Lepiota brunnescens 
_ Pileus thin, convex or nearly plane, obtuse or umbonate, 
_ whitish, the cuticle soon cracking and forming brownish granules 
_ Fr squamules except in the center, sometimes radiately rimose on 
the margin, flesh white, taste sweet; lamellae close, ventricose, 
free, white; stem equal or slightly thickened toward the base, 
hollow, fibrous, white, with a slight but subpersistent annulus 
ear the middle ; spores elliptic, 6-8 » long, 4—5 #2 broad. 
Pileus 2-3 cm. broad; stems 3-5 cm. long, 2-4 mm. thick. 
Open woods and grassy places, near St. Louis, Mo. July and 
August. N. M. Glatfelter. 
E . This singular species, when fresh, resembles Lefiota cristata, 
ut in drying, the whole plant changes color. The stem below 
the annulus at first becomes reddish brown, but soon changes to 
wn and in 12-24 hours the whole plant becomes brown. 
ruises also cause a change of color. 
Tepiota Glatfelteri 
__ Pileus thin, convex or nearly plane, obtuse or slightly umbo- 
Nate, slightly and innately fibrillose, gray, grayish brown or brown, 
Sometimes tinged with purple, the center usually darker, some- 
times radiately rimose on the margin, flesh white ; lamellae close, 
nceolate, free, white or whitish ; stem equal or nearly so, firm, 
Stuffed or hollow, white, the annulus slight, persistent ; spores 
y elliptic, 6-8 » long, 4-5 » broad. : 
- Pileus pe oa ued 4 an 4-5 cm. long, 2-4 mm. thick. 
_ Ground in woods, near St. Louis. July, August. N. M. 
atfelter ; 
[The preceding number of the BuLLertn, Vol. 31, No. 3, for March, 1904 (31: 
176, pl. 7) was issued 12 Mr 190g.) 
