Lepiota. 11 



yellow with rufous squamules; g. free, lemon yellow; s. 2 4 cm. 

 squamulose, yellow ; sp. 7 8 x 4. 



Differs from L. amianthina by free gills and white flesh ; and 

 from L. metulaespnra in squamulose stem. 



atro-crocea, W. G. Sm. P. 2'3 cm. soon plane, margin often 

 lobed, deep orange, covered with purple-brown fibrils; g. slightly 

 attached, tinged yellow ; s. 2 3 cm. orange ; sp. . 



* * * Ring superior, fixed, subpersistent ; universal 

 veil adnate to the pileus. 



Vittadinii, Fr. P. 6 10 cm. expanded, obtuse, whitish, densely 

 covered with small erect warts ; g. free, with a greenish tinge ; 

 s. 5 8 cm. with concentric scales up to large ring, whitish or scales 

 tipped red ; sp. - . 



Differs from L. nympharum in solid stem and superior ring. 



[strobiliformis, Gill. P. convex, edge irreg. covered with strong 

 brown, angular and pyramidal warts ; g. closely crowded, narrow ; s. 

 cylindrical, stout, whitish, ring membranous. 



[furnacea, Let. P. white with a black cortex splitting radially ; 

 s. white with concentric black scales. 



nymphanun, Kalchb. P. 69 cm. soon expanded, umb. often 

 tinged brown, rest white with overlapping scales ; g. free ; s. white, 

 hollow, glabrous ; sp. globose. 



[colubrina, Kromb. P. convex, obtuse, tinged fuscous, covered 

 with tomentose imbricated scales ; g. white ; s. solid, very long, ring 

 distant. 



holosericea, Fr. Very soft. P. 69 cm. soon plane, obtuse, 

 floccose, whitish or tinge of tan ; g. free ; s. 5 9 cm. bulbous, whitish, 

 silky, ring large ; sp. 7 8 x 5. 



naucina, Fr. White. P. 5 10 cm. globose then plane, subumb. 

 glabrous then breaking up into granules ; g. free ; s. 4 5 cm. taper- 

 ing to thickened base, fibrillose, ring sup. thin, disappearing; sp. 

 subq. 6 7. 



Differs from L. excoriatia in the ephemeral ring. 



leucothites, Vitt. P. 510 cm. subumbonate, white, disc tinged 

 brown, silky then squamulose ; g. white then pink ; s. 7 12 cm. white, 

 smooth, bulbous, ring large, persistent ; sp. hyaline, 9x7. 



[rorulenta, Paniz. Tufted. P. whitish, campan. umb. sulcate, 

 softly granulato-squamulose ; g. closely crowded, tinged rosy ; s. 

 slender, elongated, base thickened. 



cepaestipes, Sow. Yellow. P. 25 cm. expanded, umb., scaly, 

 margin plicate ; g. free ; s. swollen below, 7 12 cm. floccose ; sp. 

 78 x 4. 



There is a white form. 



[medioflava, Boud. P. exp. striate, snow-white, very minutely 

 silky tomentose, centre depr. but the prominent umbo yellowish ; 



