236 FUNGUS-FLORA. 



quite younf^, wliitisli wlien expanded and spotted with the 

 adpressed, broken np patches of the brown cuticle ; gills 

 free, remote from the stem, very broad, pallid ; stem 5-6 in. 

 long, 3-5 lines thick, more or less bulbous at the base, 

 Tvhitish, hollow ; ring thin, floccose, disappearing. 



Agaricus gracilentiis, Krombholz, t. 24, figs. 13, 14; Cke., 

 Hdbk., p. 12; Cke., Illustr., pi. 28. 



In pastures, also in woods. 



Resembling L. pt-ocera, but more delicate. Stem 5-6 in. 

 long, 4—5 lines thick, obsoletely scaly. Pileus at first ovate, 

 then campanulate, and at length flattened, spotted with 

 brownish scales. (W. G. Smith.) 



Lepiota mastoidea. Fr. 



Everywhere whitish. Pileus l-l^^ in. across, flesh thin, 

 soft; ovate or campanulate then expanded, acutely um- 

 bonate, the cuticle breaking up into warts which eventually 

 disappear ; gills free, very distant from the stem, Ih line 

 broad, pallid; stem 2-3 in. high, 1^-2 lines thick, equally 

 narrowing upwards from the bulbous base, glabrous, hollow ; 

 ling entire, movable. 



Agaricus (Lepiota) mastoideus, Fries, Syst. Myc, i. p. 20; 

 Cke., Hdbk., p. 12; Cke., Illustr., pi. 24? 



In woods, &c. 



The most slender of the present section ; entirely whitish. 

 (Fries.) 



Distinguished from species in other sections which it 

 somewhat resembles, in the gills being very distant from 

 the stem, movable ring, and glabrous stem. Cooke's figures 

 quoted above, if the right species, difler in having the pro- 

 minent umbo dark brown, and the remainder of the pallid 

 pileus ornamented with small brown patches more or less 

 concentrically arranged. 



II. CLYPEOLARII. 



Lepiota acutesquamosa. Weinm. 

 Pileus 4-5 in. across, flesh thick, firm, pure white; 

 hemispherical wtien young, then exjDanded and convex, very 

 obUise, pale ferruginous, adpressedly downy, and rough 



