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Mycologia 



veil soon breaking into fragments which cling to the margin and 

 stipe. 



Type collected on the ground in woods near Seattle, Wash- 

 ington, October 20-November i, 191 1, W. A. Murrill 22g. 



9. Lepiota castanescens sp. nov. 



Pileus small, thin, convex to subexpanded, prominently um- 

 bonate, 2-3 cm. broad; surface dry, densely appressed-fibrillose, 

 white to rose-colored, glabrous and darker-red on the umbo, the 

 entire surface changing to castaneous on drying; lamellae free, 

 crowded, narrow, plane, white, becoming fumosous on drying; 

 spores ellipsoid, smooth, pointed, strictly hyaline, 7-8 X 3-4 /-i; 

 stipe tapering upward, slender, slightly fibrillose, hollow, about 

 6 cm. long and 2-5 mm. thick, white or rose-tinted, changing to 

 castaneous on drying; annulus superior, fixed, ample, persistent, 

 white, changing to castaneous on drying. 



Type collected on the ground in woods near Seattle, Washing- 

 ton, October 20-November i, 191 1, W . A. Murrill jp/. 



10. Lepiota roseilivida sp. nov. 



Pileus convex to expanded, thin, umbonate, gregarious, 2.5-4 

 cm. broad; surface dry, minutely and densely fibrillose-scaly, 

 rose-lilac, livid in the center, becoming slightly darker on drying; 

 lamellae white, unchanging, free, crowded, narrow ; spores ellip- 

 soid, smooth, hyaline, 8-9 X 4-5 ; stipe slender, tapering up- 

 v^ard, subglabrous, white or pallid, changing to lilac on drying, 

 hollow, 7-10 cm. long, 2-5 mm. thick; annulus superior, mov- 

 able, ample, membranous, lilac-tinted, becoming lilac on drying. 



The type of this beautiful species was collected on the ground 

 in Muir Woods, California, November 22, 191 1, W. A. Murrill 

 1 1 38. 



II. Lepiota subfelina sp. nov. 



Pileus thin, convex to expanded, distinctly umbonate, solitary, 

 about 2 cm. broad; surface dry, white, densely covered with 

 small, latericious, imbricate scales, the umbo bay, with strigose- 

 tomentose covering; lamellae free, rather broad, plane, close, 

 white;' spores oblong-ellipsoid, smooth, hyaline, 8X4/^; stipe 

 very slender, slightly tapering upward, white and finely fibril- 

 lose above, avellaneous with a rosy tint below, and decorated 

 with latericious fragments resembling the scales on the pileus, 

 4 cm. long, 2-2.5 thick; veil obsolete, not forming an 



annulus. 



