LEPIOTA. 235 



squamulose ; flesTi of pileus thicker, white, but becoming 

 more or less evidently tinged with red when broken. 

 Among grass. 



Var. puellaris, Agaricus racliodes, var. puellaris. Fries, 

 Monogr., ii. p. 285; Cke., Hdbk., p. 11. 



Smaller than the typical form, white, pileus iloccosely 

 squamulose. 



Lepiota excoriata. Schaeflf. 



Pileus 2-3 in. across, flesh rather thick, white, soft, un- 

 changeable; globose then expanded, at length flattened, more 

 gibbous than umbonate, sometimes altogether whitish, disc 

 sometimes brownish, cuticle very thin, sometimes even and 

 persistently silky, [sometimes broken up into scales, more 

 or less peeling ofi" towards the margin ; gills free but not 

 distant from the stem, soft, white ; stem about 3 in. long, 

 4-5 lines thick, quite equal or very slightly bulbous, hollow, 

 even, almost glabrous, not spotted, very distinct from flesh 

 of pileus, white; spores 14-15 X 8-9 /x. 



Agaricus excoriatus, Schaeffer, t. 18, 19; Cke., Hdbk., 

 p. 12 ; Cke., IJlustr., pL 23. 



In pastures. 



Pileus 2h in. across, expanded, often a little irregular, 

 carnose, umbonate, flesh spongy; epidermis cracked into 

 small areolae, silky between thera, especially on the margin, 

 pale fawn, the umbo dark. Gills ventricose, free, so as to 

 leave a broad space round the top of the stem, which is 

 sunk into the substance of the pileus, dull white, slightl}^ 

 wateiy, imbricate when old ; sometimes much broader on 

 one side than on the opposite side of the pileus and some- 

 times stained with claret-coloured blotches. Spores white, 

 elliptic, with an evident transparent border. Stem li-2 in. 

 high, l-l in. thick, attenuated regularl}^ upwards without a 

 decided bulb, minutely fibrillose, hollow but stuffed with a 

 beautiful cottony web, ring deflexed, movable, but not so 

 free as that of A. procerus. (Berk.) 



Lepiota gracilenta. Kromb. 

 Pileus 2-3 in. across, flesh rather thick at the disc; cam- 

 panulate then expanded, obtusely umbonate, brownish when 



