=L. metulæ´spora= B. and Br.—_metula_, an obelisk. =Pileus= thin, bell-shaped or convex, subumbonate, at first with a uniform pallid or brownish surface, which soon breaks up into small brownish scales, the margin more or less striate, often appendiculate with fragments of the veil. =Gills= close, free, white. =Stem= slender, equal or slightly tapering upward, hollow, adorned with soft floccose scales or filaments, pallid. =Ring= slight, evanescent. =Spores= long, subfusiform. =Plant= 2–3.5 in. high. =Pileus= .5–1.5 in. broad. =Stem= 1–2 lines thick. Woods. Adirondack mountains. August and September. This species occurs with us in the same localities as L. felina, which it very much resembles in size, shape and general characters, differing only in color, the striate margin of the pileus and the character of the spores. The species has a wide range, having been found in Ceylon, England, Alabama and Kentucky. _Peck_, 35th Rep. N.Y. State Bot. This has not been elsewhere noted in the United States, probably from neglect of the spore characters, being reported as L. clypeolaria. New Jersey and Pennsylvania. _McIlvaine._ ANNULO´SI. Ring large, fixed; stem not sheathed. =L. holoseri´cea= Fr. _Gr._—entire, silken. =Pileus= 3 in. and more broad, whitish or clay-white, _fleshy_, soft, _convex then expanded_, rather plane, obtuse, _floccoso-silky_, somewhat fibrillose, _becoming even_, fragile, disk by no means gibbous; and wholly of the same color; margin involute when young. =Flesh= soft, white. =Stem= 2½-4 in. long, ½ in. and more thick, _solid_, bulbous and not rooted at the base, soft, fragile, silky-fibrillose, whitish. =Ring= superior, membranaceous, large, soft, pendulous, the margin again ascending. =Gills= wholly free, broad, ventricose, crowded, becoming pale-white. _Fries._ A species well marked from all others. Inodorous. On soil in flower beds. =Spores= elliptical, 7–8×5µ _Massee_; 6×9µ _W.G.S._ Wisconsin, _Bundy_; Minnesota, _Johnson_. Considered esculent in Europe. =L. Vittadi´ni= Fr.—in honor of the Italian mycologist. =Pileus= 3–4 in. across. =Flesh= 4–6 lines thick at the disk, becoming very thin at the margin, white; convex then plane, obtuse or gibbous, densely covered with small, erect, wart-like scales, altogether whitish. =Gills= free but rather close to the stem, 3–4 lines broad, rounded in front, thickish, ventricose, with a greenish tinge. =Stem= 2½-3½ in. long, up to ⅔ in. thick, cylindrical, with numerous concentric rings of squarrose scales, up to the superior, large ring; whitish, or the edges of the scales often tipped with red, solid. _Fries._ In pastures, etc. Intermediate between Lepiota and Amanita. Noted by Fries as poisonous. It may or may not be, but as a matter of precaution it is described. A large species, pure white, extremely beautiful. Massachusetts, _Farlow_. [Illustration: Photographed by Dr. J.R. Weist. PLATE XV. LEPIOTA NAUCINOIDES. ]