146 EDIBLE PHILIPPINE 



thickened downward, with an axial canal, white or pale brown, naked; 

 ring movable, or half-fixed, entire, with a dark brown margin. 



Manila, around Pithecolobium and Terminalia. 



L. elata Copeland. Odor and taste mild; pileus conical at first, but 

 soon flat, 4 to 6 cm. wide, umbonate, fleshy, silky-squamulose about the disk, 

 elsewhere naked, margin substriate, broadly reflexed when old, disk brown- 

 ish, periphery white, turning dark red; gills also turning from white to 

 dark wine-color, free, close, crowded, ventricose; spores 9 to 10 by 5 to 6 

 H, hyaline, symmetrical; stipe 5 to 8 cm. high, 5 mm. thick at the middle, 

 somewhat thickened downward, but not bulbous, naked, with an axial canal ; 

 ring midway, free, convex, narrow, entire, brown, fugacious, sometimes 

 attached to the margin of the pileus. 



Manila, in manured lawns. 



Judging by the descriptions, this resembles L. inebriata B. and Br. and 

 L. microspila Berk., both species Ceylonese. 



L. Candida Copeland. Odor wanting, taste mild; pileus 7 cm. wide, 

 flat, strongly umbonate, dry, shining, almost naked, the disk fleshy, the 

 margin thin, substriate, minutely crenate, the flesh unchanging; gills free, 

 close, very crowded, lanceolate, subacute at both ends, thin, white; spores 

 9.5 by 6 n, hyaline, guttulate, apiculate; stipe 15 cm. high, 5 mm. thick 

 near the top, with a narrow axial hollow, much enlarged but not bulbous 

 in the solid lower part, naked, shining white, deeply sunken into disk 

 but not confluent with it; annulus high up, deciduous. 



Manila, solitary in sunny grass. 



Well characterized by the strongly fusiform lower third of the stipe. 



