140 MINOR PRODUCTS OF PHILIPPINE FORESTS 



LEPIOTA CHLOROSPORA Copel. (Poisonous). 



Lepiota chlorospora has a fleshy pileus, passing from globose 

 through campanulate to broadly conical. It is 8 centimeters 

 wide and 4 centimeters high, with the periphery sometimes ex- 

 planate. The disk is brown, with an entire or fissured cap. The 

 periphery is sparsely clothed with pale brown scales and fibers. 

 It is white near the entire or subciliate margin. The gills 

 are free, remote, 5 centimeters long, 8 millimeters deep, and 

 are crowded, narrowed toward the stipe, white at first, turning a 

 greenish blue. Their edges are made of hyaline vesicles, 25 to 

 35 by 20 microns. The spores are hyaline-green, 8 by 5 microns, 

 smooth, short stalked, each with a single large globule containing 

 the green pigment. The stipe is 8 to 10 centimeters high and 6 

 to 8 millimeters thick. It is straight or crooked, knotted, firmly 

 attached to the pileus, and brown outside and inside, with a white 

 pith. The annulus is 1 centimeter broad, conspicuous, fixed, 

 persistent, split in its own plane, and white above until discolored 

 by the spores. The fungus grows in lawns. 



This species is poisonous to the majority of people. It can 

 be readily told by the green gills of the mature forms (Fig. 22). 



LEPIOTA ELATA Copel. 



Lepiota elata has a mild odor and taste. The pileus is coni- 

 cal at first, but soon flattens. It is 4 to 6 centimeters wide, um- 

 bonate, fleshy, silky-squamulose about the disk, elsewhere naked. 

 The margin is substriate, broadly reflexed when old. The disk 

 is bro^^^lish with white peripherj% but turning dark red. The 

 gills also turn from white to dark wine colored. They are free, 

 close, crowded, and ventricose. The spores are hyaline, symme- 

 trical, from 9 to 10 by 5 to 6 microns. The stipe is 5 to 8 centi- 

 meters high and 5 millimeters thick at the middle, somewhat 

 thickened downward, but not bulbous, and is naked, with an axial 

 canal. The ring is attached midway, and is free, convex, narrow, 

 entire, brown, fugacious, and sometimes attached to the margin 

 of the pileus. The fungus grows in manured lawns. 



LEPIOTA FUSCO-SQUAMEA Peck. (Leviota manilensis Covel.) 



Lepiota fusco-squamea has an excellent flavor and almost no 

 odor. The pileus is 5 to 9 centimeters wide, campanulate-conical, 

 later flat, subumbonate, and striate near the margin. The disk 

 is densely clothed with minute brown scales which become sparse 

 toward the margin. The flesh is whitish and unchanging. The 

 gills are free, not attached to a collar, crowded, deep, whitish, 



