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Type collected on the ground under redwoods near Searsville 

 Lake, California, December ii, 191 1, James McMurphy 12^. 

 Related to L. cristata. 



6. Lepiota amplifolia sp. nov. 



Pileus convex to subexpanded, umbonate, gregarious, reach- 

 ing 3.5 cm. broad; surface smooth, white, polished, with a few 

 delicate, floccose, isabelline-testaceous scales, the umbo isabel- 

 line-testaceous with cuticle subentire; lamellae free, white, not 

 crowded, very broad and triangular; spores oblong-ellipsoid, 

 smooth, hyaline, 8-9 X 3-5/^; stipe equal, finely fibrillose, hollow, 

 white, becoming rose-tinted on drying, 7-9 cm. long, 2-4 mm. 

 thick; veil white, evanescent, remaining only in small fragments 

 clinging to the margin and stipe. 



Type collected on the ground in a dense fir forest at Glen 

 Brook, Oregon, November 7, 191 1, W. A. Murrill yj8. In a 

 dried condition, this species somewhat resembles L. mutata Peck, 

 described from Kansas in 1896. 



7. Lepiota Sequoiarum sp. nov. 



Pileus thin, convex to nearly plane, umbonate, gregarious, 2-4 

 cm. broad; surface dry, finely imbricate-fibrillose-scaly, white,, 

 the center more densely fibrillose and tinted vv^ith isabelline, the 

 remainder of the surface being at times tinted with the same 

 color in the scales ; context loosely woven, thin, white ; lamellae 

 white, free, close, narrow ; spores ovoid to ellipsoid, smooth, hya- 

 line, 7-9X3-5-4/^; stipe tapering upward, long, slender, white, 

 smooth, glabrous, hollow, reaching 10 cm. long and 5 mm. thick; 

 annulus superior, white, not fixed but collapsed on the stipe, per- 

 sistent. 



Type collected on the ground in Muir Woods, California, No- 

 vember 22, 191 1, W. A. Murrill 1143. 



8. Lepiota fumosifolia sp. nov. 



Pileus convex, not umbonate, gregarious, 3 cm. broad; sur- 

 face dry, white with isabelline, granular scales, the center isabel- 

 line ; lamellae free, broad, rather crowded, white, becoming f umo- 

 sous on drying; spores oblong- fusiform, smooth, hyaline, 12 X 

 7 II ; stipe equal or tapering upward, cylindric, smooth, white, 

 furfuraceous, pale-avellaneous below, 6 cm. long, 6 mm. thick; 



