Sept. 1906 ] North American Species of Lepiota 
197 
tricose, free, remote; spores cymbiform, rather acute at either 
extremity, about 12 mic. in length. 
Growing among pumpkins in cultivated lands. S. Carolina, 
Curtis. Pileus 2-3 cm. in diameter, the stipe 2-3 cm. high and 
2 mm. thick. 
20. LEPIOTA REPANDA, Mastocephalus repandus 
Clements, Bot. Survey Neb. iv. 1896. 
Pileus fleshy, convex with a wavy outline, umbonate, the sur¬ 
face covered with minute crowded granular scales, incarnate- 
ochraceous. Stipe slender, equal, hollow, white above the an¬ 
nulus, below minutely floccose farinaceous and pinkish-ochrace- 
ous. Lamellae ventricose, free, white; spores globose or oval, 
5-7 x 5 mic. 
Growing on rich soil, Nebraska, Clements. Pileus 1-2 cm. 
in diameter, the stipe 2-3 cm. long and 1-2 mm. thick. 
IV. CLYPEOLARIAE. Dermis of the pileus a thin mem¬ 
brane, radiately hbrillose, the cuticle at first continuous but 
sooner or later broken up and drawn apart by the growth of the 
pileus, this at length presenting a whit e-fib rillose surface sprinkled 
with colored scales; the veil lacerate , part of it ahpendiculatc, 
continuous downward with the doccose-hbrillose investment of 
the stipe.' 
Agarics mostly of small size, comprising altogether many 
species. 
21. LEPIOTA CLYPEOLARIA, Agaricus clypeolar- 
ius Bulliard, Herb. Fr. 1788, Fries. Icones, Sel. 1867; Le- 
PIOTA CLYPEOLARIA, PECK, 54 N. Y. REP. I9OO. 
Pileus fleshy, ovoid then campanulate and explanate, sub- 
umbonate; the flesh thin, white; the dermis radiately-fibrillose 
and white or yellowish beneath the cuticle; the cuticle thin, 
at first continuous and fulvous or rufous, soon broken up except 
in the center and drawn apart into small scales; the margain 
appendiculate by fragments of the veil. Stipe tapering upward 
from a slightly thickened base, fistulous, fibrous-stuffed, fibrous- 
floccose below the annulus and white or yellowish. Lamellae 
rather broad, close, free, white or yellowish; spores oblong or 
subfusiform; 15-20x5-7 mic. 
Solitary or gregarious; growing in the woods of hilly and 
mountainous regions. New York, Peck. Pileus 3-7 cm. in 
diameter, the stipe 5-8 cm. long and 3-6 mm. thick. I give the 
species as figured by Fries and figured and described by the 
state botanist of New York. I am diposed to think the plant has 
a limited range, but the name has been widely used and no doubt 
generally applied to two or three of the following species. 
