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274. Agaricus (Claudopus) byssisedus. P. "Little 



Claudopus." 



Pileus membranaceous, resupiuate, then reflexed, nearly plane, 

 pruinose with grey down ; stem incuryed ; gills broad, whitish, 

 then cinereous. — Fr.Epicr.p.'212. Pers.Ic. Desc.t.l^jA. Pers, 

 Obs. ii. t. 5,/. 8, 9. Jnn. N.H. no. Q^Q. 



On the ground. Sept. Kare. 



Sometimes with a distinct slender stem. Pileus ^-1 in. broad, grey ,- spores 

 angulato-stellate, in this respect resembling the Hijjjorhodii, '0004 in. long,  

 •00028 in. wide. 



Sub-Gen. 16. Leptoxia. Fr. S.M. i., p. 201. 



Spores salmon colour, irregular in shape ; pileus less campanu- 

 late than Xolanea, and never truly fleshy, cuticle always torn into 

 scales, disk umbilicate, and often darker than margin, which is 

 at first incurved (b) ; stem rigid, with a cartilaginous bark, often 

 dark blue, confluent with the hymenophore, but heterogeneous 

 from it ; gills not decurrent, but often with a small tooth or sinus, 

 separating from the stem, variable in colour, at first dirty white, 

 yellowish, greenish-grey, or blue. — (P/. ///.,/. 16.) 



Hab. Dry hills, and sometimes marshy places, in July and 

 August. 



Most of the species grow in clusters, are small, and of an elegant colour ; 

 most common in rainy seasons. Structurally the same as CoUt/bia, and bears 

 the same relationship to ClitojiUas as Collyhia to CUtocyhe. — W. G. S. 



The small sketch, showing incurved margin of pileus, is A . (Le^tonia) 

 chalybceus, P. 



275. Agaricus (Leptonia) lampropus. .Fr. *' Mouse-coloured 



Leptonia.'" 



Pileus rather fleshy, obtuse, convex, then plane, not striate, at 

 length depressed, squamulose, broken up into flocci ; stem sub- 

 fistulose, even, unspotted, steel-violet ; gills adnate, ventricose, 

 whitish. — Fr. Epicr.p. 152. Bull. t. 521,/. 1. Ann. N.H. no. 145. 



In pastures. 



Pileus l^^in. across, opaque, not umbilicate. nor papillate, from mouse- 

 colour to steel-grey. 



276. Agaricus (Leptonia) serrulatus. P, Saw-gilled 



Leptonia." 



Pileus between fleshy and membranaceous, hemispherical, then 

 expanded, umbilicate, sub-squamose ; stem fistulose, smooth, 

 dotted above, black ; gills adnate, seceding, broad, bluish, then 



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