152 FUNGUS-FLORA. 



* Pediadei ; growing in fields and pastures. 



** Scorpioidei ; growing in woods and damp, uncultivated 

 places. 



ffl Lepidoti. (Typical species.^ 



Pileus flocculose or squamulose ; veil evident ; spores 

 ferruginous. 



* Scales of pileus superficial, disappearing. 

 ** Pileus innately (persistently) squamulose. 



*** Pileus destitute of squamules, but silkily atomate^ 



t GYMNOTI. 

 * Gills free or sligJitly adnexed, 



Naucoria lugubris. Fr. 



Pileus lJ-3 in. across, fleshy, campanulate tlien expanded, 

 undulate, gibbous, even, smooth, pallid then ferruginous, 

 sometimes bay at the disc ; flesh white ; gills free, ventricose, 

 very broad behind, narrow in front, crowded, pallid then 

 ferruginous, margin usually serrated; stem 3-4 in. long, 

 3-5 lines thick, rigid, smooth, fusiformly-rooting, externally 

 remarkably cartilaginous, pallid becoming ferruginous below, 

 hollow ; spores pip-shaped, 7 X 4 /a. 



Agaricus (Naucoria) liiguhris, Fries, Syst. Mj'c, i. p. 254; 

 Cke., Hdbk., p. 173 , Ck'e., Illustr., pi. 1187. 



On the ground amongst grass, &c. 



Stem 4 in. long, 4 lines thick, base at length reddish. 

 Pileus 3 in. broad, now and then tenaciously viscid. A 

 remarkable form occurs in pine woods with the pileus buUate, 

 disc bay, stem short (2 in.). (Fries.) 



Naucoria festiva. Fr. 

 Pileus about 1 in. across, flesh thin except at the apex, 

 convex, rather gibbous, even, glutinous, usually brownish- 



