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5. Odor not of radish; gills narrow; pileus convex-plane, dark brown, 



covered by a copious brown tomentum and then by very dense 

 and wooly, pointed scales, 1.5-2.5 cm.; stem very tomentose, 

 brown; spores 4 x 2-2.5 /x L. erioplwra Pk. 



6. Stem glabrous or nearly so; veil arachnoid, very fugacious; pileus 



5-7.5 cm. broad, pale crust-brown, soon cracked into minute 

 scales; spores subtruncate-oblong, 8 x 3.5 ji 



L. Cortinarius Lange 



6. Stem adorned downwards by fibrils of veil and scattered dark, 



floccose scales 7 



7. Pileus 6-12 (15) cm. broad, covered with brown or rufous-brown, 



erect, pyramidal soft warts or scales 8 



7. Pileus 2-5 cm. broad, its cuticle breaking up into small, pointed, 



blackish-brown scales; gills ventricose-broad, simple, crowded; 

 spores 6-8.5 x 3.5-4 /x L. fuscosquamea Pk. 



8. Gills forked, rather narrow; spores 6-9 x 2 /x L. Friesii Lasch 



8. Gills not forked, crowded; spores 6-9 x 2.5-3 ix. . .L. acutaesquamosa Fr. 



VII. PROCERAE-ANNULOSAE 



1. Spores large, (12) 14-18 jj, or more in length 2 



1. Spores not reaching 14 jj, in length 9 



2. Flesh white, unchanging 3 



2. Flesh becoming pink or reddish when bruised; annulus erect-flaring, 



externally brown at margin, prol)ably fixed; pileus 5-7.5 cm., 

 dark-brown, diffracted-scaly ; stem 7.5 cm. x 10-15 mm., sub- 

 equal, not bulbous; spores 18-20 x 10-12 /j, 



L. emplastrum Cke. & Massee 



3. Stem markedly bulbous at base; annulus mobile 4 



3. Stem tapering upward, scarcely subbulbous; annulus thin, erect- 



flaring, narrow; pileus pallid brown, disk reddish-brown, 8-15 cm., 

 abruptly umbonate; spores 14-18 x 9-10 ix. .L. gracilienta Fr.-Ricken 



4. Pileus quite large, between 8-18 (20) cm. ; cuticle diffracted into 



large, irregular scales 5 



4. Pileus averaging smaller 7 



5. Cuticle of pileus brown to tawny-brown 6 



5. Cuticle of pileus whitish or tinged alutaceous; stem 20-30 cm. long, 



bulb 3-4 cm. thick; spores 12-16 x 9-10 /jl...L. porrigens Viv.-Morgan 



6. Pileus not umbonate, brown, scales shaggy-imbricate, 15-20 cm.; 



stem 20-30 cm. long; gills whitish; spores 12-17 x 8-10 jjl 



L. rachodioides P. Henn.-Morgan 



6. Pileus umbonate, rufous-brown to tawny-brown, 8-12 (15) cm. 



broad; annulus thick, firm, its underside brown-scaly; stem with 

 furfuraceous or small brown scales, 15-25 cm. long; spores 

 14-18 (20) X 9-12 n L. procera Fr. 



7. Pileus obtuse or obtusely subumbonate 8 



7. Pileus acutely umbonate, fuscous, diffracted-scaly, 3-6 cm.; gills 



very remote; stem 7-10 cm. x 3-4 mm., obsoletely scaly; spores 



15 X 9-10 /i L. mastoidea Fr.-Ren 



8. Pileus glabrous or minutely floccose, margin excoriate, whitish with 



