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Lepiota
near 7262
Pileus 2.8cm., silky, fibrilloose; disc Hays russet shading to carnelian
red; pellicle somewhat separable, fragile; margin splitting; flesh
thin, white
Gills free, ventricose, crowded, white
Stipe hollow, subcartilaginous, very fragile, silky, white, 5cm. x 3mm.,
ending in a bulb 8-9mm; ring 1-1.5cm. below pileus, erect, forming a
cottony sheath on stem; below for 5mm. base of bulb shows narrow ring
of same texture but not true volva.
Under Chusquea above Quebrada
Costa Rica, San José prov., Guayabillos, 2300m.
7-7-36
Dodge & Goerger