LEPIOTA. 245 



"Lepiota nympharum. Kalclibr. 



Pilous about 3 in. across, flesh thick, soft, white ; convex 

 llien expanded, umbonate, white or with a fuscous tinge at 

 the disc, everywhere covered with somewhat overhippinj;', 

 more or less spreadinpj, concentrically arranged scales ; giUs 

 free but close to the stem, without a cartilaginous collar, 

 crowded, ventricose, soft, white ; stem. 3-4 in. long, 4-5 lines 

 thick, inserted into a deep socket of the flesh of the pilous, 

 white, somewhat equal, smooth and glabrous below the ring, 

 minutely floccose above, hollow ; ring very distant, narrow, 

 persistent, fixed, reflexed ; spores globose. 



Agaricus (Lepiota) nympharum, Kalchbrenner, Icon. Sol. 

 Hymen. Hung., p. 10, tab. 2, fig. 1. 



Among grass, &c. 



The flesh of the stem becomes rufous near the outside. 

 Differs from L. Vittadinii in the hollow stem. 



Lepiota holosericea. Fr. 



Pilous 3-4 in. across, flesh thick, soft, white ; convex then 

 •expanded and almost plane, obtuse, silkily floccose and some- 

 what fibrillose, even, fragile, whitish or with a tinge of tan- 

 colour, disc not at all gibbous and coloured like the remainder, 

 margin incurved when young ; gills quite free, broad, ven- 

 tricose, crowded, pallid white; stem solid, 2^-4 in. long, 

 h in. and more thick, soft, fragile, silkily-fibrillose, whitish, 

 base bulbous, not rooting ; ring superior, membranaceous, 

 large, soft, pendulous, margin turned up ; spores elliptical, 

 7-8 X 5 /x. 



Afjaricus (Lepiota) liolosericeus. Fries, Epicr., p. 16; Cke., 

 Hdbk., p. 15 ; Cke., lllustr., pi 41. 



In gardens, &c. 



Large, inodorous, ver}" soft. 



Lepiota naucina. Fr. 

 White. Pilous 2-4 in. across, flesh thick, soft ; spherical 

 then exjoanded and almost plane, somewhat umbonate and 

 .smooth at the centre, cuticle thin, glabrous, then breaking 

 up into evanescent granules ; gills free but very close to the 

 stem, 2-3 linos broad, narrow in front ; stem 2 in. long, h in. 

 thick at the apex, becoming thicker downwards to the swollen 

 base, imperfectly hollow ; ring superior, thin, doHcate, 

 usally soon disappearing ; spores subglobose, 6-7 //, diameter. 



