Lepiota subflavescens Murrill 1914

Lepiota subflavescens Murrill, sp. nov
Pileus thin, expanded or somewhat depressed, 2 cm. broad; surface bright-lemon-yellow, not striate, appressed-squamulose, the cuticle entire on the disk, margin thin, entire, concolorous; context very thin, white; lamellae free, broad, crowded, white; spores ellipsoid, appendiculate, smooth, hyaline, 6-7 X 3-4 y. ; stipe equal except at the bulbous base, solid, pale-yellow, glabrescent, 3 cm. long, 2 mm. thick; annulus ample, persistent, median, yellow.
Type collected on the ground in moist woods in City Park, New Orleans, Louisiana, September 6, 1908, F. S. Earle 76.
Distribution: Known only from the type locality.