Leucosporse 



spine-like. These are sometimes curved. They are generally larger Lepiota. 

 and more numerous on the disk than elsewhere, and often they are 

 wholly wanting on the margin. Peck, 35th Rep. N. Y. State Bot. 



West Philadelphia, 1897, on lawn and growing from trunk of a maple 

 tree; Mt. Gretna, Pa., mixed woods. Mcllvaine. 



I first saw specimens of L. acutesquamosa when sent to me by Miss 

 Lydia M. Patchen, President Westfield Toadstool Club. It was later 

 found by myself and tested. Specimens were sent to Professor Peck 

 and identified as L. acutesquamosa. 



Caps and stems brownish-purple. The pointed squamules or tufts 

 have dark-brown points, shaded to a delicate purple at base. Gills 

 light, faint flesh-color. Veil is silky, transparent, beautiful, quite tena- 

 cious stretching until cap is well expanded, persistent, though at times 

 fugacious. Smell like stewed mushrooms. The caps are of excellent 

 substance and flavor. 



L. his'pida Lasch. rough. Pileus 2-3 in. across. Flesh thin, 

 white, unchangeable; hemispherical then expanded, umbonate, tomen- 

 tose or downy at first from the remains of the universal veil ; during 

 expansion the down becomes broken up into small, spreading, scaly 

 points, which eventually disappear, umber-brown, sometimes with a 

 tawny tinge. Gills free but near to the stem, the collar of the pileus 

 prominent and sheathing the stem, crowded, ventricose, simple, white. 

 Stem about 3-5 in. long, 3-5 lines thick, attenuated upward, densely 

 squamosely-woolly up to the superior, membranaceous, reflexed ring, 

 dingy-brown, stem tubular, but fibrillosely stuffed. Spores 6 7x4/u. 

 Massee. 



In margins of and in open mixed woods, under pine trees, Haddon- 

 field, N. J., July to September, 1892. Quite plentiful year after year in 

 the same places. The American plant is taller than the English species, 

 the stem reaching five inches, and the color of the cap a delicate tawny- 

 brown. Smell slight, but pungent like radishes. 



The whole fungus is tender and delicious. It is one of the few Lepi- 

 otae that stews well. 



L. feli'na Pers. belonging to a cat. Pileus thin, bell-shaped or 

 convex, subumbonate, adorned with numerous subtomentose or floccose 

 blackish-brown scales. Gills close, free, white. Stem slender, rather 



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