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marked with very long striations. The Cuban specimens men- 

 tioned below were found in gardens and on a lawn, while the 

 Jamaica collection was made in woods. 



Santiago de las Vegas, Cuba, Earle 290, 362, 531; Port Antonio, 

 Jamaica, Earle 602. 



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14. Lepiota cretacea (Bull.) 

 Agaricus cretaceus Bull. Herb. Fr. pi. 374. 1787. (Type from 

 France.) 



Agaricus luteus With. Bot. Arr. 3: 344. 1792. (Type from 

 England.) 



Agaricus cepaestipes Sowerby, Eng. Fungi pi. 2. 1797. (Type 

 from England.) 



Agaricus (Lepiota) sordescens Berk. & Curt. Jour. Linn. Soc. 



10: 283. 1868. (Type from Cuba.) 

 Agaricus (Lepiota) cheimonoceps Berk. & Curt. Jour. Linn. Soc. 



10: 283. 1868. (Type from Cuba.) 

 Lepiota cepaestipes Quel. Champ. Jura Vosg. 35. 1872. 

 Lepiota farinosa Peck, Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 43 : 35. 1890. 



(Type from Massachusetts.) 

 f Lepiota Magnusiana P. Henn. Hedwigia 31 : 318. 1892. (Type 



from Germany.) 



Lepiota mammae formis Underw. Bull. Torrey Club 24: 82. 1897. 

 (Type from Alabama.) 



This edible, cosmopolitan species occurs in attractive and con- 

 spicuous groups or clusters, the pileus being white, or rarely yel- 

 low, and the base of the stipe usually swollen like a young onion. 

 The mealy or warty covering over the entire sporophore strongly 

 suggests Amanita solitaria and A. echinata. The spores are ovoid 

 or ellipsoid, often pointed at one end, smooth, hyaline, usually 

 uninucleate, 8-1 1 X S~7 /*• Hiatula squamulosa Mont., described 

 from Guiana, resembles this species, but the spores are described 

 as ovoid-reniform. Agaricus apodactylus Berk. & Curt., from 

 Cuba, is not distinct, but this is probably only a manuscript name. 



Cuba, Earle 15, 16, 547, 559, 28, 113, 52, 550, 301; Grenada, 

 Broadway; Guadeloupe, Duss; Santo Domingo; Nicaragua, 

 Oersted. Also in the United States, South America, Europe, and 

 the Orient. 



