250 FUNGUS-FLORA. 



Lepiota polysticta. Eerk. 



Pileus about l.V in. across, fleyli tliick, firm, wliite ; convex 

 then expanded, obtu.-el}^ nmbonate or quite obtuse, reddish 

 or yellowisli brown, usually broken up into minute adpressed 

 scales, margin often fringed with fragments of the veil; 

 gills free, rounded at both ends, crowded, 2-3 lines broad, 

 with a yellowish tinge; stem 1-1?, in. long, 3-4 lines thick 

 at the apex, base narrow^ed, scaly and coloured like the pileus 

 up to the imperfect ring, smooth and pale above, stuffed. 



Agaricus (Lepiota^ iwlystidus. Berk., Engl. Flora, vol. v. 

 p. 9 ; Cke. Hdbk., p. 17 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 30. 



Among short grass b}^ road sides, &c. 



Pileus 1^ in. broad, not at all campanulate, expanded, and 

 broadly and obtusely umbonate; flesh thick in the centre, 

 firm and tough, the epidermis broken into minute flat scales 

 of a rich red-brown. Gills numerous, unequal rounded 

 before and behind, broad, ventricose, quite free, the margin 

 serrulate, white with a slight yellowish tinge. Stem 1 in. 

 high, f in. thick in the middle, divided into tw^o dis- 

 tinct portions, the upper one silky of a pinkish hue, the 

 lower scaly like the pileus, but the scales browner; attenu- 

 ated at the base Avhere it is furnished with many bi'anched 

 fibrous rcots, hollow, stuffed with fine silk}^ filaments. Eing 

 furfuraceous, attached in minute portions to the edge of the 

 pileus. Inodorous and insipid, (Berk.) 



Y. MESOMOPiPHI. 



Lepiota sistrata. Fr. 



Pileus |--li^ in. across, flesh thin ; campanulate then ex- 

 panded, obtuse or at times obtusely umbonate, whitish, disc 

 often daiker, tinged with yellow or flesh-colour, pruinose 

 with shining particles; gills almost free, ascending, clear 

 white, crow^ded, l|-2 lines broad; stem 1^-2 in. long, 

 about 1 line thick, equal, silky-fibrillose, wdiite, fistulose, 

 loosely stufied with loose fibrils ; ring torn, fibrillose, attached 

 to the edge of the pileus in the form of delicate fibrils, 

 fugacious. 



Agaricus {Lepiota) sistratus, Fries, Sj^st. Myc, i. p. 2-1 ; 

 Cke., Hdbk., p. 17; Cke., Illustr., pi. 85a. 



