THE GENUS LEPISTA 
William A. Murrill 
This genus, which is closely related to Entoloma, was founded 
by W. G. Smith in 1870, with Pa.villus Lepista Fries as its type, 
(iillet included in it only those species having very decurrent lamel- 
lae, which were related rather to Paxillus than Tricholoma. 
Maire, in 1913, erected the genus Rhodo paxillus, to include Tri- 
clwloma panaeolum, T. nudum, T. personatum, and a few other 
related species. 
Lepista (Fries) W. G. Sm. Clavis Agar. 26. 1870 
Hymenophore large, fleshy, putrescent surface smooth, not 
viscid, margin at first involute ; lamellae adnexed or slightly de- 
current ; spores rosy-ochraceous in mass, not angular : stipe central, 
fleshy ; veil none. 
Type species, Paxillus Lepista Fries. 
Spores 7-10 X 4-5 /“• 
Stipe 15-30 mm. thick. i. L. personate. 
Stipe 4-8 mm. thick. 2. L. domestica. 
Spores s~6 X 3-4 /R ; species very rare. 3. L. panaeola. 
1. Lepista person.\ta (Fries) W. G. Sm. Clavis Agar. 37. 1870 
fAgaricus nudus Bull. Herb. Fr. pi. 4^p. 1789. 
.igaricus violaceus Sow. Engl. Fung. pi. 2og. 1799. Not Agar- 
icus violaceus Schaeff. 1774. 
.dgaricus bicolor Pers. Syn. Fung. 281. 1801. Not Agaricus bi- 
color Bat.sch. 1783. 
.'Igaricus personatus Fries, Obs. Myc. 2: 89. 1818. 
Tricholoma personatum Quel. Champ. Jura \ osg. 45. 1872. 
Rhodopaxillus personatus Maire, Ann. Myc. ii: 338. 1913. 
Pileus compact, becoming soft, thick, convex or plane, obtuse, 
regular, solitary or gregarious, 5-12 cm. broad ; surface moist, glab- 
rous, variable in color, generally pallid or cinereous tinged Avith 
violet or lilac, sometimes wholly violet, margin at first involute 
and villose-pruinose, becoming glabrous ; context whitish, pleasant 
to the taste, edible; lamellae broad, crowded, rounded behind, 
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