16 AGAEICINI. 



Sect. 3. Annulosi — ring fixed. 



27. Agairicus (Lepiota) vittadini. Moretti. " Great white 



Lepiota." 



Pileiisflesliy, obtuse, rough with strong wart-like scales ; stem 

 solid, cylindrical, stout, concentrically squarrose ; ring large ; 

 gills free, ventricose, thick. — Moret. Bot. Ital. t. 1. Vitt.Am. 1. 1. 

 Krombh. t.'276,f. 1-14. Huss. i. /. 85. 



In pastures. Rare. Norfolk, Northamptonshire, Hunts, &c. 

 A large species of a pure white ; extremely beautiful. Considered poisonous, 



28. Agaricus (Lepiota) holosericeus. Fr. " Silky Lepiota." 



Pileus fleshy, obtuse, soft, silky fibrillose, becoming even ; stem 

 solid, bulbous, sericeo-fibrillose, ring superior, persistent, broad, 

 reflexed: gills free, ventricose, white, growing pallid. — Fr. Epicr, 

 p. 16. Smith Seem. Journ. 1868. 



In moist woods. Staplehurst, Kent. Esculent. 



Large, inodorous. Pileus flesiiy, soft, smooth, convex, then expanded, disc 

 never umbonate. of a floccose silky texture, fragile, entirely uniform in colour, 

 3 in. or more broad, gills free, broad, ventricose, crowded, pallid; stem solid 

 2|^-4 in. high, \ in. or more thick, bulbous at the base, soft, fragile, silky 

 fibrous ; ring superior, membranaceous, broad, soft, pendulous and reflexed. 

 Spores -0003 X "0002 in.— IT. G. S. 



29. Agaricus (Lepiota) naucinus. Fr. "Large spored 



Lepiota," 



Pileus fleshy, soft, cuticle thin, entire, or breaking up into gran- 

 ules, somewhat umbonate and smooth in the centre ; stem almost 

 hollow, thickened at the base, attenuated upwards, fibrillose ; ring 

 large,at length evanescent; gills approximate, whitish. — Fr. Epicr. 

 p.U. Krombh. t. 24,/. 20-23. Paul.t.l60,f. 1-2. Bait. t. 7-9. 

 Vejit.t.4:8,f.b-6. 



In fields. 



Delicate tan color, the gills at length assuming a dirty pink hue. The large 

 white spores are very characteristic. Easily confounded with A. cretaceiis. 



30. Agaricus (Lepiota) cepcestipes. Sow. "Onion stemmed 



Lepiota." 



Pileus sub-membranaceous, ovate, then expanded, mealy and 

 scaly, disc fleshy and broadly umbonate ; margin plicate ; stem 

 hollow, floccose, thickest in the middle, or at the base; ring evan- 

 escent ; gills at length remote. — Soiv. t. 2. Grev. t. 333. Sturm, t. 

 1. Fl. Dan. 1. 1798. Eng. Fl. v.p. 7. Gard. Chron., I860,;?. 47. 



