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above the ring. Piletis with the flesh thin, 1^-3 in. across, 

 glabrous, viscid, soft, at length fragile, umbo Avith a fuscous 

 tinge, margin slightly striate. GilJs free, at length distant 

 from the stem, crowded, soft, often connected by veins. 'J he 

 entire fungus is usually clear white, but forms occur having 

 the pileus clay-colour or tan-colour, margin even, fimbriate. 

 (Fj-ies.) 



Eeadily distinguished by the very imperfect ring, and the 

 glutinous pilens and stem. L. meduUaia diflers in having 

 the stem quile dry. 



Lepiota glioderma. Fr. 



Pileus 1-2 in. across, flesh thin, soft, white; campanulale 

 then convex, broadly gibbous or obtuse, even, glabrous, 

 reddish-bay or yellowish-brown, viscid ; gills free but close 

 to the stem, ventricose, broad, pure white, not spotted ; stem 

 about 3 in. long, 2-3 lines thick, equal, dry, soft, AA'hitish, 

 covered with floccose squamules as far up as the incomplete, 

 torn ring, quite naked above the ring, whitish or with a 

 rufous tinge. 



Agaricus (Leinota) gliodermiis, Fries, Yet. Ac. Forhandl., 

 1852; Cke., Illustr., pi. 118a ; Cke., Hdbk., i>. 19. 



In pine woods, &c. 



Eeadily distinguished by the dark-coloured, viscid pileu?, 

 that does not become at all broken up at the surface, as 

 usual in the genus. 



Analogous in man}^ respects with L. clypeolaria, but very 

 distinct in the even, glabrous, viscid pileus. (Fries.) 



Lepiota lenticularis. Lasch. 



Pileus 3-4 in. across, flesh rather thick, soft, sj^ongy, 

 white ; globose when young, then campanulate and convex, 

 even, glabrous, naked, tan-colour with a tinge of red ; gills 

 entirely free, but close to the stem, ventricose, broadest in 

 front, closely crowded, whitish ; stem 4-6 in. high, ^ in. and 

 more thick, base slightly swollen, or altogether equal, solid 

 but very spongy and soft, more or less sqnamulose or almost 

 glabrous; ring superior yet distant from the j)ileus, even, 

 large ; stem above the ring exuding largo drops of water in 

 damp weather which dry up and leave spots. 



Agaricus lenticularis^ Lasch, Linn., iii. n. 18; Cke., Illustr., 

 pi. 17; Cke., Hdbk., p. 19. 



