24 AGARICACE^E Lepiota 



41. L. CEPyESTiPES Quel. (from the onion- or chive-shaped stem ; 



cepa, an onion, stipes, a stem) a b c. White, pale lemon, or 

 sulphur. 

 P. floccose ; marg. plicate. St. floccose. A. fugacious. 



Gregarious. Stoves, frames, pine-pits, on tan and leaves, melon-beds, etc. ; 



common. Mar. -Sept. 2f x 45 X f in. Sometimes becomes vinous or 



claret-colour in drying. 

 Var. crctacea Sacc. P. white ; sc. darker. 



42. L. eitrophylla Sacc. (from the lemon-tinted gills) a c. Lemon- 



yellow. 

 P. sc. rufous ; um. rich-brown ; marg. not crenate or sulcate 



St. squamulose. A. fugacious. Flesh and G. sometimes 



change to green. 

 On the ground ; rare. Oct. ij X ij X \ in. 



43. L. LICMOPHORA Sacc. (from the sulcate pileus : a fancied resem- 



blance to a winnowing fan, Gr. likmos) a b c. 



P. lemon-yellow. A. small. G, remote. 



Hothouses, conservatories, etc., on the ground, on coco-nut fibre. Aug.-Oct. 

 2j X 4f X -fg in. Resembles a Bolbitius or a yellow Hygrophortis. Some- 

 times wholly sulphur-white. At one time regarded as a var. of 41. 



d. Granulosce. 



44. L. eareharias Karst. (from a fancied resemblance in the granules 



of the pileus to the teeth of a dog-fish, Gr. karcharias) a b c. 

 P. Flesh-colour; gr. darker. A. granulose. 



Taste disagreeable, bitter or none ; odour faint to strong of meal. Woods, 

 fir. May-Nov. 2 X if X ^ in. Sometimes very small. 



45. L. einnabarina Karst. (from the cinnabar or vermilion colour) 



a b c. 



P. granular, often coarsely so ; marg. fimbriate with V. St. 

 granular below A., orange-vermilion. 



Taste mild. Woods, fir, grassy places. Sept. -Nov. 2\ x 2j X T 5 S in. 

 Agariais Terreyi B. & Br. is a form of this species. 



46. L. granulosa Que'l. (from the granular pileus) a b c. 



P. rloccoso-granular, red- brown. St. granular-scaly, red-brown 

 below. G. slightly adnexed, sometimes adnate. 



Woods, fir, grassy places ; very common. July-Nov. 2 X 2j X T 3 <j in. 

 There is a white var. rufcscens Sacc., which becomes red in drying. 



46a. L. atroeroeea Mass, (ater, black, croceus, saffron) a b. 



P. expanded, slightly depressed, bright salmon-orange, more or 

 less covered with purple-brown almost black granular flocci. 

 St. hollow, attenuate upwards, bright salmon-orange ; salmon- 

 brown-squamulose. A. fugacious. G. broadly adnate, salmon- 

 white. Flesh thin ; salmon-orange-brown. 



Oct. i$ X ij X J in. Allied to 46 and 47. 



