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14. Lepiota brunnescens Peck, Bull. Torrey Club 31 : 177. 



1904 



Stanford University, California, Baker 14^; Searsville Lake, 

 California, McMurphy ^5. Described from plants collected near 

 St. Louis by Glatfelter. The western plants are not entirely 

 typical, but they show the same decided change in color. 



15. Lepiota naucina (Fries) Quel. Champ. Jura Vosg. 35. 



1872 



Stanford University, California, Dudley /j, ^24, Baker 133 (in 

 part) ; Pasadena, California, McClatchie. 



16. Lepiota fuliginescens sp. nov. 



Pileus convex to subexpanded, solitary, about 8 cm. broad; 

 surface dry, finely imbricate-floccose-scaly, slightly rimose, white 

 with rosy tints, becoming fuliginous on drying; lamellae free, 

 distant, narrow, arcuate, white, changing to pale-latericeous on 

 drying; spores regularly ovoid, smooth, hyaline, 6X4/>i; stipe 

 long and twisted owing to its struggle through the leaves, taper- 

 ing upward, polished, hollow, colored and changing like the 

 pileus, about 10 X i cm. ; annulus superior, ample, fixed, white 

 to pale-fuliginous. 



Type collected on the ground in a redwood forest at La Honda, 

 California, November 25, 191 1, IV. A. Murrill & L. R. Abrams 

 1263. 



17. Lepiota rubrotinctoides sp. nov. 



Pileus convex to nearly plane, often umbonate, sometimes de- 

 pressed in old plants, solitary or gregarious, 4-7 cm. broad; 

 surface dry, subglabrous, white with rosy tints to red or pur- 

 plish, the center always darker, varying from pink or red to 

 dark-purple or blackish, cuticle even and unbroken when young, 

 splitting radially, especially on the margin, as the pileus ex- 

 pands ; context thin, white, drying soft and flexible ; lamellae 

 free, narrow, close, plane, white, the edges minutely serrulate ; 

 spores subovoid, smooth, hyaline, with a large clear nucleus, 

 7X3-5)^; stipe long and slender, equal or slightly tapering up- 

 ward, hollow, glabrous or somewhat fibrillose, white, 10-15 X 

 0.5-1 cm. ; annulus superior, fixed, membranous, ample, white, 

 persistent. 



