LEUCOSPORI. 



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In thickets. Uncommon. July-Sept. Lepiota. 



Name — yAoto?, clammy, Sepfxa, skin. Fr. Monogr. i. /. 31. Hym. Eur. p. 

 39. Icon. t. 15. /. I. Berk. Out. p. 95. B. 6^ Br. ?i. 785. C. Hbk. n. 33. 

 Ilhcst. PI. 118. S. My col. Scot. n. 30. 



48. A. delicatus Fr. — Pileus i cent. (>< in.) broad, rufescent 

 or becoming yellow, slightly fleshy, convexo-plane, somewhat 

 umbonate, even, s7nooth, viscous, in nowise granulose. Stem 2.5 

 cent, (i in.) long, scarcely 2 mm. (i lin.) thick not taking into 

 account the AtnsoXy Jloccoso-scaly and to?ne7itose covering, yis^u/ose, 

 equal, dry, whitish. Ring entire, membranaceous, dry, densely 

 floccoso-scaly. Gills free, crowded, thin, ventricose, shining 

 white. 



Very thin and delicate ; stature that of A. mesojnorphus, but very sufiftciently 

 distinct from it in the pileus being viscous and the stem clothed with flocci. A. 

 pallidus, pileus becoming light-yellow or pale rose-colour. B. vaporariorutn, 

 pileus rufescent, ring more floccose and here and there incomplete. Var. B. 

 approaches A. gloiodermus. 



About old stumps. Powerscourt, Wicklow, 1867. Sept. 



A stout form. Pileus hemispherical, obtuse, rivulose, viscid, smooth, pallid, 

 2.5 cent, (i in.) across; stem 12 mm. (14 in.) high, 6 mm. {% in.) thick, trans- 

 versely punctate, squamulose, stuffed with flocci, white above ; veil floccose, 

 slightly appendiculate ; gills free, rounded behind, approximate, pallid. The 

 veil is really double, floccose, covered with scaly particles. Taste like that of 

 Polyporus squamosus. B. 6^ Br. '^avae— delicatus, tender, delicate. Fr. 

 Monogr. i. p. 31. Hym. Eur. p. 39. Icofi. t. 15./. 2. B. ^ Br. n. 1186. 

 C. Illust. PI. 118. 



49. A. illinitus Fr. — Pileus 4-7.5 cent. (iX-3 in.) broad, white, 

 the umbo often becoming fuscous, slightly fleshy, smooth, viscous, 

 soft, at length fragile, slightly striate at the margin. Stem 5-7-5 

 cent. (2-3 in.) long, 4-6 mm. (2-3 lin.) thick, stufl"ed when young, 

 soon hollow, equal, cylindrical, fragile, by no means floccose or 

 scaly, but besmeared with gluten, slippery. Gills free, at length 

 remote, crowded, soft, somewhat connected by veins, shining 

 white. 



The gluten of the stem is a species of veil, at the first continuous with the 

 gluten of the pileus, but ruptured when the pileus is expanded, leaving upon 

 the stem an obsolete not prominent ring, above which the stem is dry. Distin- 

 guished from all others by the glutinous stem. There is a clay-coloured or 

 ochraceous variety with the pileus even, and the margin fimbriated. 



In w^oods, &c. Penzance. 



Spores sphaeroid or subsphaeroid, 4-6 mk. K. Name — illino, to smear over; 

 illitus and illinitus, smeared with gluten. Fr. Monogr. i. p. 32. Hym. Eur. 

 p. 39. Icon. t. 16. f. I. B. tf Br. n. 1990. Hoffm. Ic. anal. t. 13. 



