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jus, floccose-scaly over its entire surface, 2-3 cm. long, 1.5-3 mm - 

 thick; annulus not distinct. 



Type collected on a much decayed log in an orange grove at 

 Chester Vale, Jamaica, 1,000 m., December 23, 1908, W . A. & 

 Edna L. Murrill 379. Also collected at Chester Vale, W. A. & 

 Edna L. Murrill 389. This species is closely related to Lepiota 

 asprata, described by Berkeley from South Carolina, but the sur- 

 face covering is very distinct. 



11. Lepiota rimosa sp. nov. 



Pileus convex to expanded, umbonate, gregarious, 1-2 cm. 

 broad ; surface smoky-fuliginous, paler with age, faintly striate, 

 often splitting from the margin, covered with a granular coating 

 which cracks areolately with age exposing the white flesh ; lamellae 

 free, crowded, very broad, somewhat ventricose, white; spores 

 subglobose or broadly ovoid, smooth, hyaline, 4/x long; stipe 

 cylindric, white, subglabrous, 2-4 cm. long, 1-2 mm. thick ; annu- 

 lus small, white, persistent, about the middle of the stipe. 



Type collected on the ground in a garden at Santiago de las 

 Vegas, Cuba, June 19, 1904, F. S. Earle no. This is possibly 

 the plant reported from Cuba by Berkeley and Curtis as L. 

 floralis, a species described from South Carolina. 



12. Lepiota cristata (Bolt.) Quel. Champ. Jura Vosg. 34. 



1872 



Agaricus cristatus Bolt. Hist. Fung. Halifax 1 : 7. pi. 7. 1788. 

 Agaricus subantiquatus Batsch, Elench. Fung. 2 : 59. /. 205. 1789. 



This well-known temperate species was collected in coffee 

 plantations near Cordoba, Mexico, and in orchards at Colima, 

 Mexico. This tropical form is smaller and much paler than the 

 form commonly seen in the United States and Europe, and the 

 scales on the pileus are comparatively inconspicuous, but it prob- 

 ably does not merit specific distinction. The margin becomes 

 yellow when bruised. 



Mexico, W. A. & Edna L. Murrill 602, n 38. 



1 13. Lepiota longistriata Peck, Bull. Torrey Club 25 : 



368. 1898 



This species, described from plants collected by Earle in gardens 

 in Alabama, is whitish, with brown umbo, hairy-squamulose, and 



