jLeucosporae 



In pastures or grassy lawns. May to September. Leptota. 



North Carolina, edible, Curtis; Massachusetts, Frost; California, H. 

 and M.; Ohio, Morgan; Minnesota, Johnson. 



Distinguished from the preceding by its smaller size and short stem 

 which is scarcely bulbous. 



Esculent qualities good. 



L. mastoi'dea Fr. Gr. breast-shaped. Pileus rather thin, ovate, 

 bell-shaped, then flattened, with a conspicuous acute umbo, cuticle thin, 

 brownish, breaking up in minute scattered scales; the pileus appears 

 whitish beneath. Stem hollow, smooth, tough, flexible, attenuated 

 from the bulbous base to the apex. Ring entire, movable. Gills very 

 remote, crowded, broad, tapering at both ends, white. 



Pileus 1-2 in. broad. Stem 2-3 in. long, 3-4 lines thick at base, 

 i/i2 lines at apex. 



North Carolina, edible, Curtis. It is generally eaten in Europe. 



In woods, especially about old stumps. October. 



The entire plant is whitish and is well marked by the prominent umbo, 

 which generally has a depression around it. It has the least substance 

 of any in this section, and consequently not much value as food. 



L. gracilen'ta Krombh. gracilis, slender. Pileus rather fleshy, 

 thickest at the disk, ovate then bell-shaped, finally flattened, obscurely 

 umbonate; at first brownish from the adnate cuticle, which, breaking 

 up into broad adpressed scales, allows the whitish pileus to be seen be- 

 neath them. Gills remote, very broad, crowded, pallid. Stem whit- 

 ish, obscurely scaly, hollow or containing slight fibrils, slightly bulbous. 

 Ring thin, floccose, vanishing. 



Stem 5-6 in. long, 3-5 lines thick. In pastures, also in woods. 



Spores nx8/* W.G.S. 



Almost as tall as L. procera, but slighter in stem and pileus; the 

 ring, instead of being firm and persistent, is thin and fugacious, and 

 the stem is hardly bulbous. 



Edible, but not of the first quality. 



L. Mor'gani Pk. in honor of Professor Morgan. (Plate XIV.) 

 Pileus fleshy, soft, at first subglobose, then expanded or even depressed, 

 white, the brownish or yellowish cuticle breaking up into scales except 



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