20 AGARICACE.E Lepiota 



or nearly so, except 46, 47, and 50. Spores normally white, some- 

 times yellowish, greenish or green. (Fig. 12.) 



The species grow mostly in rich grassy places, more often in fields 

 than woods ; some occur in stoves and greenhouses. Nearly all are 

 autumnal. Some are edible. Species 21 — 59 



A. Epidermis dry. 



a. Procerce. Scales of pileus brown or brownish on a white 



ground. Stem bulbous. Annulus more or less movable. 

 Gills remote. Edible. The species are nearly allied ; inter- 

 mediate forms occur between all. 21 — 25 



b. Clypeolarice. Pileus and usually the stem scaly or covered 



with granules. Annulus fixed. Gills free. Odour, except 

 29, strong, disagreeable, pungent, sometimes weak. 26 — 37 



c. Anmdosoz. Annulus superior, fixed, somewhat persistent ; 



fugacious in 41 and 42. 38 — 43 



d. Granulosa. Pileus and lower part of stem covered with 



granules. Annulus inferior. Gills approaching stem, 

 adnate in 47. 44 — 48 



e. Mesomorphce. Pileus dry, entire, not torn, not usually 



granular, small, slender. 48a — 54 



B. Pileus smooth, viscid. 



f. Viscid<z. 55 — 59 



a. Procerce. 



21. L. proeera Quel, (procerus, tall) a b c. 



P. umbonate, finely scaly. St. minutely scaly. G. subremote. 



Flesh unchanging white. 



Solitary or in troops. Edible. Taste and odour pleasant, delicate. Pastures, 

 parks, gardens, heaths, among bracken, etc. ; common. July-Oct. 

 8 X iof x I in. 



22. L. raehodes Quel, (from the ragged pileus ; Gr. rakos, a ragged 



garment) a b c. 

 P. subglobose, coarsely scaly. G. subremote, sometimes reddening 

 when bruised. Flesh changing to saffron-reddish when broken. 



Gregarious or csespitose. Edible. Taste and odour pleasant, strong, varying 

 to rank. Woods and hedges, fir-plantations, greenhouses ; common. 

 July-Dec. 5| x 6 X I in. The form puellaris is smaller and shining 

 white. Bears the same relation to 21 as the horse-mushroom does to the 

 pasture-mushroom. There is a white variety. 



22a. L. prominens Sacc. (from the prominent umbo) a b. 



P. sphaerico-expanded, strongly and subacutely umbonate ; 

 sc. imbricate on urn. ; brownish or dull pale ochreous. 

 St. abruptly bulbous at the base. 

 Edible. Fields. Oct. 8f X 4§ x J in. 



22b. L. permixta Barla (from its mixed characters) a. 



P. campanulato-convex, slightly subumbonate, then expanded, 

 smooth then fibrillose ; sc. opaque, somewhat pale brown on a 

 brownish-ivory ground; marg. sublacerate, white. St. hollow, 



