Lepiota fuliginescens Murrill 1912

Lepiota fuliginescens Murrill, Mycologia 4: 236. 1912
Pileus convex to subexpanded, solitary, about 8 cm. broad; surface dry, finely imbricate-
floccose-scaly, slightly rimose, white with rosy tints, becoming fuliginous on drying; lamellae
free, distant, narrow, arcuate, white, changing to pale-latericeous on drying; spores regularly
ovoid, smooth, hyaline, 6 X 4 /i ; stipe long and twisted owing to its struggle through the leaves,
tapering upward, polished, hollow, colored and changing like the pileus, about 10X1 cm.;
annulus superior, ample, fixed, white to pale-fuliginous.
Type locality: La Honda, California. Habitat: On the ground in a redwood forest. Distribution: Known only from the type locality.