STUDIES ON THE AGARICACEAE OF HOKKAIDO. I

44 SANSHIIMAI
Gregarious or caespitose, edible. Pileus 2-5 cm. broad, at first
subovoid with an obtuse apex, then campanulate and expanded to
. umbonate; surface dry, white, yellowish or brownish, darker at the
'center, fibrillose or with densely floccose, fugacious scales and
powders, plicat,e-sulcate on the margin; context thin, white, taste
and odour none; lamellae free, white or whitish, narrow, crowded;
'stipe 5-8 cm. long, 4-6 mm. thick, attenuated upward, bulbous at the
base, white, covered with fugacious, delicate flocci, hollow; annulus
white, membranous, thin, fixed, inferior, persistent; spores white in
mass, ellipsoidal, 7.5-9 x 4-5 fJ" with a central gutta, smooth.
Hab. on humus ground under trees or in woods. Summer to
autumI1. Ishikari (Sapporo).
Distr. Japa!l (Hokkaido), Europe, North America and Australia.
Jap. name. Kinu-karakasatake (n. n.).
14. Lepiota lutea [BOLT.] GODFRIN,
Bull. Soc. Myc. Fr. XIII, 33, 1897-GuEGUEN, Bull. Soc. Myc. Fr.
XXIV, 121, 1908-REA, Brit. Basid. 74, 1922-KoNR. et MAUBL. Icon. SeI. Fung.
pI. 15, 1930-LANGE, Fl. Agar. Dan. I, 37, pI. 14, f. G, 1935.
AgaTicus luteus BOLT. Hist. Fung. Halif. I, pI. 50, 1788 (teste FR.).
AgaTicus cepaestipes var. lutea PERS. Syn. Fung. 416, 1801-FR. Hymen.
Eur. 35, 1874.
AgaTicus flammula ALB. et SCHW. Consp. Lusat. 149, 1805-KICKX, Fl.
. Crypt. Flandr. II, 133, 1867 (teste FR.).
AgaTicus flos sulphuris SCHNIZEL. apud STURM, Deuts. Fl. III, fasc. 31, 1,
pI. 1, 1851 (teste FR.).
Lepiota flammula GILL. Hymen.' Fr. 63, cum icone, 1874.
Lepiota cepaestipes var. lutea QUEL. Ench. Fung. 7, 18S6-SACC. Syll.
Fung. V, 44, 1887; Fl. Ital. Crypt., Hymen. 70, 1915.
AgaTicus cepaestipes Auct. p. p.
Lepiota cepaestipes Auct. p. p.
Gregarious, caespitose or solitary. Pileus 1-3 cm. or more broad,
at first conical, then campanulate, finally subumbonate; surface dry,
sulphur-yellow to deep yellow, covered with concolorous minute
granular fugadous flocci, long plicate-sulcate on the margin; context
thin, membranous, concolorous, taste none, odour none or somewhat
disagreeable; lamellae free, slightly paler or subconcolorous,
rather narrow, rather crowded; stipe 4-8 cm. or more long, 2-4 mm.
thick, attenuated upward, bulbous at the base, concolorous, powdery,