LEPIOTA MAMMAEFORMIS n. sp.
Pileus thin, white, with a dull brownish strongly umbonate disc, 5-8 cm. in diameter, mealy squamulose, the margin strongly sulcate-striate, somewhat incurved ; gills rather narrow, moderately close ; stem 12-18 cm. long, flexuous, hollow, tapering upward from an elongate thickened base, over I cm. at its greatest thick
ness, the narrow distant annulus often finally deciduous.
Growing caespitosely from near the base of a decaying BMUS sinctia on the streets of Auburn, Alabama, July 1896. The gills turn darker in drying and the umbo becomes strikingly prominent.