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V. ASPERAE. Dermis of the pileus or at least its su¬ 
perficial layer hbrillose-scaly from the first, the scales reflexed 
and squarrose or the fibres fasciculate and convergent into pointed 
warts; the veil and the cuticule of the stipe may be of similar 
texture or the stipe may be nearly glabrous. 
A tribe of many species among which are some of rather 
large size. 
29 . LEPIOTA ASPERA, Amanita aspera Persoon, 
Synopsis, 1801. Agaricus acutesquamosus Weinman, Syl- 
loge I. 70. Stevenson, Br. Fungi I. 16. Cooke Illust. PI. 14. 
Pileus fleshy, hemispherical, then expanded and convex, ob¬ 
tuse ; the flesh moderately thick, white; the dermis appressedly 
tomentose, pale ferruginous, sprinkled with minute, sharp-pointed, 
brownish, easily separating warts; veil large, membranaceous, 
persistent, adherent in places to the margin of the pileus and 
annulate upon the stipe. Stipe tapering upward from a bulbous 
base, thick, fistulous, fibrous-stuffed, white above the annulus, 
below fibrillose-scaly and ferruginous. Lamellae rather narrow, 
closely crowded, white, tapering inward, free, approximate; 
spores 6-10x2-3 mic. 
Pileus 10-15 cm. in diameter; the stipe 8-12 cm. in length, 
8-12 mm. thick at the apex, 18-25 mm - the bulbous base. This 
plant and Lepiota Friesii are considered by Fries to be varieties 
of a single species. In Europe they grow in grassy grounds 
and gardens. In this country the plants reported under the name 
Lepiota acutesquamosa undoubtedly belong to several different 
species. 
30 LEPIOTA ASPRATA Berkeley. Hoooker's Jour¬ 
nal, 1847. Lepiota echinodermata Cke. & Mass. Grevillea 
xvi. 30. 
Pileus fleshy, convex then explanate; the flesh thin, white, 
the dermis a dense fibrillose-floccose layer, the fibers convergent 
into erect, conic warts, pale yellow to orange in color, the veil 
lacerate, appendiculate. Stipe slender, njearly equal, floccose- 
scaly below the annulus and colored as the pileus. Lamellae close, 
ventricose, white, slightly adnexed; spores sub-elliptic 8-10 x 
6 mic. 
Growing on the ground and on rotten wood. S. Carolina, 
Curtis; Alabama, Atkinson. Pileus 2-4 cm. in diameter, the 
stipe 4-5 cm. long and 3-4 mm. thick. Fries in the Novae 
Symbolae and also in the Hym. Eur. identifies this species with 
Pholiota muricata Fr. 
31. LEPIOTA HEMISCLERA B. & C. Fungi Cub. 1867. 
Pileus fleshy, ovoid then convex and explanate; the flesh 
thin, white; the dermis a dense fibrous coat, alutaceous to umber, 
the ends of the fibers curling up and convergent into small 
pointed warts; the veil ample, irregularly lacerate, continuous 
downward with the fibrillose cuticle of the stipe. Stipe fistulous, 
