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* Pileiis viscid, sTiining lohen dry. 



Panaeolus leucophanes. B. & Br. 



Pileus about 2- ^'^- across, obtuse, campanulate, viscid, 

 shining when dry, white, minutely silky, here and there 

 stained subochraceous ; margin appendiculate ; gills aduate, 

 pale greyish flesh-colour, theu blackish, margin white ; stem 

 attenuated upwards, white, about 2 in. high and 1 line thick 

 in the centre, fibrillose and sparingly scattered with mealy 

 particles, hollow, slightly wavy or undulate ; spores sub- 

 cymbiform, 9 /x long. 



Agaricus (^Panaeolus) leucoplianes, B. & Br., Ann. Nat. Hist., 

 n. 1137, pi. 2, f. 1 ; Cke. Hdbk., p. 218. 



In grass fields. Allied to Anellaria separata, but smaller 

 and jDaler in colour and wdthout a ring. 



Panaeolus egregius. Massee. 



Pileus 2i in. high by 2 in. broad, ovate-campanulate, 

 smooth, even, viscid when moist, bright orange-brown, 

 disc darker, fleshy, exceeding the gills at the margin, with 

 a trace of agglutinated down on the pileus, slightly 

 wj'inkled when dry, flesh 1 line or more thick, ochra- 

 ceous : stem 5 in. long and ^ in. or more thick, slightly 

 thickened at the base, solid, fibrillose, readily splitting longi- 

 tudinally, pale brijwn without and within, duller than the 

 pileus, white and cottony at the base, smooth at the apex ; 

 gills broad, ^ in. or more at the centre, ventricose, adnexed, 

 crowded, thin, brownish black, edge entire, paler, dry, not 

 deliquescent, spores brown, then blackish, oblong-ovate, with 

 a minute apiculus, 15-17 X 7-8 /x. 



Agaricus (Panaeolus) egregius, Massee, Grevillea, vol. xiv. 

 p. 91 ; Cke., Hdbk., p. 218; Cke., Hlustr., pi. 624. 



On the ground. Solitary ; a fine and large species with- 

 out any close affinitj'^ with any known species. There is no 

 trace of a ring. There is just a tinge of purple about the 

 gills at maturity. 



Panaeolus phalaenarum. Fr. 

 Pileus 1-2 in. across, rather fleshy, campanulato-convex, 

 obtuse, even, viscid, glabrous, greyish, then yellowish clay- 

 colour, fragments of the veil attached to the margin ; gills 

 adnexed, } in. broad, greyish-black ; stem 3-5 in. long, 2 lines 

 or more thick, equal, straight or very slightly flexuous, rather 



