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54. LEPIOTA SORDESCENS B. & C. Fungi Cub. 1867. 
The flesh of the pileus thin, white; the dermis radiately fibril- 
lose, white beneath the cuticle, the margin striate; the cuticle 
brown, separating into scales, which are deciduous except in the 
center. Stipe slender, glabrous, white, brownish when dry. 
Lamellae narrow, at first white, remote. 
Growing on logs in woods. Cuba, Wright. Pileus 2-3 cm. 
in diameter, the stipe 3-5 cm. long and 2 mm. thick. This is all 
that can be inferred from the meager description. 
55. LEPIOTA FELINOIDES Peck, Bull. Torr. Club, 
1900, Sylloge XVI, 9. 
Pileus fleshy, ovoid then campanulate and explanate, sub- 
umbonate; the flesh thin, white; the dermis radiately fibrillose, 
at length rimulose; the cuticle at first continuous, pale to dark 
umber, separating into small scales, which are gradually drawn 
apart nearly to the umbo. Stipe tapering upward from a clavate 
base, fistulous, pure white, the cuticle silky-fibrillose, annulus a 
thin membranaceous band, quite persistent. Lamellae rather 
broad, close, white, ventricose, free and subremote; spores elliptic- 
ovoid, 6-8 x 4-5 mic. 
Growing on the ground among old leaves in woods. Mis¬ 
souri, Glatfetter; Preston, O. Pileus 3-6 cm. in diameter; the 
stipe 5-8 cm. long, 3-5 mm. thick at the apex and 5-10 mm. thick 
at the base. The species differs from Lepiota rubrotincta in no 
other way than in the color of the pileus; both grow together 
indiscriminately. 
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56. LEPIOTA BRUNNESCENS Peck, Bull. Torr. 
Club, 1904; Sylloge XVII. 6. 
Pileus fleshy, convex or nearly plane, obtuse or umbonate; 
the flesh thin, white; the dermis radiately fibrillose, whitish be¬ 
neath the cuticle, sometimes rimulose around the margin; the 
cuticle at first continuous and brownish, soon breaking up into 
scales and granules, except in the center. Stipe equal or slightly 
thickened toward the base, hollow, fibrous, white; the annulus 
small, persistent about the middle. Lamellae close, ventricose, 
free, white, spores elliptic, 6-8 x 4-5 mic. 
Growing in open woods and grassy places. Missouri, 
Glatfelter. Pileus 2-3 cm. in diameter, the stipe 3-5 cm. long 
and 2-4 mm. thick. 
