North American Flora: Agaricales, Agaricaceae (Vol. 10 ... - MykoWeb

58 NORTH AMERICAN FLORA [VOLUME 10
ellipsoid, smooth, hyaline, uninucleate, apiculate, 7X3.5-4^; stipe white, glabrous, slightly
tapering upward, 1.5 cm. long, 1-2 mm. thick; annulus slight, evanescent.
TYPE LOCALITY: Port Antonio, Jamaica.
HABITAT: In low ground near the coast.
DISTRIBUTION: Jamaica.
62. Lepiota phaeosticta Morgan, Jour. Myc. 12: 248. 1906.
Pileus fleshy, subovoid with a blunt apex to expanded, subcespitose, 1-1.5 cm. broad;
surface radiate-fibrillose, the cuticle soon separating into very minute, dark scales, which are
visible as small black points on the white surface; context very thin, white; lamellae close,
white, tapering behind, free and rather remote; spores oblong-ellipsoid, obliquely apiculate,
5-6X3-3.5 p; stipe tapering upward from the clávate base, white, solid, glabrous, 1.5-2 cm.
long, 1-2 mm. thick; annulus membranous, persistent.
TYPE LOCALITY: Preston, Ohio.
HABITâT: Rotten logs in woods.
DISTRIBUTION : Known only from the type locality.
63. Lepiota Cultorum (Berk. & Curt.) Sacc. Syll. Fung. 5: 35.
1887.
Agaricus {Lepiota) Cultorum Berk. & Curt. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. II. 12: 418. 1853.
Pileus hemispheric, umbonate, 2.5 cm. broad; surface rough with brown, granular scales;
lamellae remote, broad, ventricose; spores cymbiform, acute at the ends, smooth, hyaline,
10M long; stipe short, furfuraceous, 1.3-2.5 cm. long, 2 mm. thick.
TYPE LOCALITY: South Carolina.
HABITAT: Among squashes in a garden and in other cultivated grounds.
DISTRIBUTION: South Carolina and North Carolina.
64. Lepiota avellanea Clem. Bot. Surv. Neb. 2: 41. 1903.
Pileus fleshy, plane, 5 cm. broad; surface dry, avellaneous, the cuticle lacerate, with
appressed, brown scales toward the margin; lamellae remote, attached to an indistinct collar,
cream-colored, reddjsh; spores irregularly ovoid, acute at one end, smooth, hyaline, 8-10X
5-6 n; stipe bulbous, brownish-fibrillose, somewhat hollow, 4 cm. long, 8 mm. thick; annulus
small, inferior, concolorous.
TYPE LOCALITY: Lincoln, Nebraska.
HABITAT: On soil in a greenhouse.
DISTRIBUTION : Known only from the type locality.
65. Lepiota muticolor Murrill, sp. no v.
Pileus campanulate to expanded, strongly umbonate, gregarious, 2.5-4 cm. broad; surface
dry, dark-brown on the umbo, the remainder white, changing to rosy-isabelline on drying,
decorated with numerous, small, brownish, fibrillose scales, margin slightly striate; lamellae
free, crowded, somewhat ventricose, white changing to fulvous on drying; spores ellipsoid,
becomin'g yellowish-brown, smooth, 8-9X6-7 n ; stipe cylindric above, subbulbous at the
base, rather tough, subglabrous, white changing to reddish-umbrinous on drying, 3-5 cm. long,
about 3 mm. thick; annulus median, fixed, ample, sometimes deciduous, white with a brown
margin.
Type collected on a hickory log in "Palmetto Swamp" near Auburn, Alabama, September 1,
1899, F. S. Earle.
DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the type locality.
66. Lepiota tepeitensis Murrill, Mycologia 3: 82. 1911.
Pileus convex to expanded, slightly umbonate, 3 cm. in diameter; surface white, uneven,
fuliginous at the center, adorned with fuliginous, imbricate scales, the remains of the cuticle;
lamellae free, white, broad, rather crowded; spores ellipsoid, smooth, pure-hyaline, usually