Lepiota scabrivelata Murrill 1914

Lepiota scabrivelata Murrill, sp. nov
Pileus rather fleshy, convex to expanded, gregarious, 2-3 cm. broad; surface dry, subochraceous, densely covered with rigid, pyramidal, concolorous scales, 1-2 mm. long and 1 mm. broad at the base; lamellae free, crowded, broad, white; spores ellipsoid, smooth, hyaline, 4X2-2.5 p; stipe cylindric, not enlarged below, dry, hollow, coated like the pileus with pyramidal, yellow scales, which are smaller and partly disappear with age, 4—5 cm. long, 4-5 mm. thick; veil ample, thickly beset with yellow, pyramidal scales similar to those on the stipe, not forming a distinct persistent annulus.
Type collected on the ground in wet woods in City Park, New Orleans, Louisiana, September 6, 1908, F. S. Earle 73.
Distribution: Known only from the type locality.