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near Cornell Heights, Ithaca, N. Y., July n, 1902, C. H. Kauff¬ 
man, C. U. herb., No. 9733; McGowan’s woods, July 2, 1902, H. 
H. Wetzel, No. 9667. I have al^o collected it at Blowing Rock, 
N. C., and Dr. Peck and myself collected it at Piseco, N. Y., in 
August, 1902. 
Lepiota caloceps Atkinson n. sp.—Plants gregarius, 6-10 
cm. high, pileus 4-8 cm. broad, stems 6-10 mm. in thickness. 
Pileus oval to convex and expanded, margin somewhat incurved 
at first, fleshy, solid, firm and somewhat brittle when fresh, 3-4 
mm. thick at the center, thinning out to the margin, center some¬ 
times broadly gibbous. First when young of an even wood brown 
to a tawny olive color, or yellowish toward the margin, as the 
pileus expands the outer layer cracks deeply into rectangular or 
nearly square areas showing the white flesh of the pileus beneath, 
color of the patches wood brown or tawny olive, or in some plants 
yellowish toward the margin. Gills dingy white, firm and some¬ 
what brittle, crowded, free but somewhat close and angular be¬ 
hind, 3-4 mm. broad, edge eroded. Spores narrowly elliptical 
or nearly oblong somewhat obliquely truncate at the base and 
attached to the sterigma by one corner as in L. cristata, white, 
granular, smooth, 6-8x2.5-3 /l. Stem cylindrical, nearly even, 
fleshy, hollow, white above and dull flesh color below, the flesh 
showing the same colors in the same part of the stem; covered 
up to the veil by transversely elongated or angular patches of the 
universal veil of the same color as the patches on the surface of 
the pileus and showing the color of the stem between, these ex¬ 
posed parts of the stem covered more or less with white threads 
pulled out from the patches as they separate. Veil more or less 
silky hairy, that is the inner portion, the outer portion of the same 
character as the universal veil. Stem nearly even, somewhat 
bulbous, and with rooting mycelial cords. Woods below spring 
in ravine, Cornell Heights, Ithaca, N. Y., Sept, 4, 1900, D. Grif¬ 
fin, C. U. herb., No. 5344. 
Lepiota ecitodora Atkinson n. sp.—Plants 5 cm. high, pi¬ 
leus 2 cm. broad, stem 2.5 mm. in thickness. Pileus convex, 
pale lavender, minutely scaly, flesh white, thin. Gills 
3 mm. broad, narrow in front, rounded behind, white, tinged with 
yellow. Basidia clavate, 25-28 x 6-7 ju , 4-spored. Cystidia none. 
Spores cylindrical, smooth, 9-11x2-2.5 n. Subhymenium 
of irregular cells, 4-10 n in diameter. Trama of gills of large 
flexuous cells, 80-150 x 10-20/-/. . Trama of pileus floccose, sur¬ 
face scaly of globose cells, 20-25// in diameter. Stem gradually 
smaller below, white and pruinose above, dark brown to blackish 
below, fleshy fibrous, rather tough. Annulus powdery, evanes¬ 
cent. Odor foetid, resembling that of eciton ants. Ground, Cas- 
cadilla woods, Ithaca, N. Y., Aug. 9, 1901, C. O. Smith, C. U. 
herb., No. 7656. 
