252 FUNGUS-FLORA. 



Distinguished by tlie entire, erect ring, and the even and 

 glabrous pilous and stem. 



Lepiota seminuda. Lasch. 



Pileus about 1 in. across, flesh thin ; campanulate then ex- 

 panded, umbonate, lloccosely mealy then naked, whitish or 

 iiesh-colour, margin often fringed with the torn veil; gills 

 touching the stem, thin, | line broad, white; stem 1-2 in. 

 long, not a line thick, equal, whitish, mealy ; ring small, 

 imperfect, superior ; spores elliptical, 5 X 3 /x. 



Agaricus seminudus, Lasch, Linn., iii. no. 17; Cke., Hdbk., 

 p. 18; Cke., Illustr., pi. 19a. 



In woods, &c. 



Inodorous. Very slender and delicate. L. sisfrata differs 

 in the pileus being covered with glistening particles, and in 

 the stem being fibrillose downwards. L. Bucknalli differs in 

 the strong smell and the violet powder on the pileus and 

 stem. 



Lepiota Bucknalli. B. & Br. 



Smell strong, resembling gas tar, Pileus |-| in. across, 

 flesh thin; campanulate then convex, white, sprinkled with 

 lilac powder, which is densest at the disc; gills touching the 

 stem, about 1 line broad, white; stem li-3 in. high, 1 line 

 thick, more or less dilated at the base, otherwise equal, 

 .straight, white, basal half sprinkled with violet powder, 

 iistulose ; spores 7 X 3 • 5 /x. 



Agaricus (Lepiota') Bucknalli, l^er\. & Broome; Cke., Hdbk., 

 p. 18; Cke., Illustr., pi. 19b. 



On the ground. 



Smell strong, like gas tar. (B. & Br.) 



Lepiota ianthina. Cuoke. 



Pileus about | in. across, flesh thin; campanulate then 

 •expanded, umbonate, whitish at the even margin, disc 

 •dark violet, fibrillose, rest of pileus screaked with innate, 

 radiating, violet, hair-like squamules ; gills free, about 1 line 

 broad, lanceolate, scarcely crowded, whitish ; stem about 

 1 in. long, 1 line thick, nearly equal, somewhat flexuou.*', 

 whitish, soon hollow ; ring distant, narrow deciduous. 



Agaricus (^Lepiota) ianthinus, Cke., Grevillea, vol. xvi. 

 p. 101; Cke., Hdbk., p. 363; Cke., Illustr., pi. 944a. 



