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24. Agaricus (Lepiota) meleagris. Sow. " Sowerby's Lepiota." 



Pileus fleshy, thin, conveXy then plane ; cuticle broken up into 

 black scales ; flesh turning red; stem sohd, squamulose, thickened 

 downwards, and black ; root reticulated ; gills nearly free. — Soiv. 

 t. 171. Berk. Outl.p. 101, no. 50 (sub. Trich.olomd] B. ^' Br, Ann. 

 N.H. 1865. JEng. Fl.Y.p. 9. 



On hot-beds. May — Oct. 



" It has a solid stem, and a curious, somewhat reticulated root, in drying 

 it becomes of a blush-red all over, except the lower part, which retains the 

 darker hue." — Soiv. Stem about 3 in. long, \ in. thick, nearly equal, pileas 

 1^^ in. broad. Stem stouter in proportion than in A. clyjpeolariws. 



25. Agaricus (Lepiota) clypeolazius. Bull. " Fragrant Lepiota." 



Pileus fleshy, soft, umbouate, at first with an even crust, at 

 length broken into floccose adpressed scales ; stem fistulose, thin, 

 almost equal; ring evanescent, floccoso-squamose ; gills free, ap- 

 proximate.— 5«//. t. 405. 506,/.2. Tratt.Aust. t. 26. Paul. 1. 136. 

 Eng. Fl. v. p. 8. Fr. Icon. 1. 14,/. 2. Berk, Out. p. 94. Vent. t. 44, 

 /. 3-4. 



In woods and hot-houses. [United States.] 



Sweet scented. Variable in colour, white, yellow, pink, rufous, brown, &c, 

 Pileus 1| in. broad, sub-campanulate, strongly umbonate, whitish, with red- 

 dish scales ; gills numerous, quite free, nearly reaching the stem, ventricose; 

 stem 2-3|in.high, 2 lines thick, hollow, but stuffed with cottony tibres, whit- 

 ish, pale brownish, or rufescent. the whole clothed with iibrillose scales. Eing 

 sometimes remaining on the stem, but generally attached to the margin of 

 the pileus, or evanescent. Inodorous and insipid. — M.J.B. 



26. Agaricus (Lepiota) cristatus. Fr. " Stinking Lepiota." 



Pileus slightly fleshy, rather obtuse, cuticle at first continuous, 

 naked, then broken into sub-granulose scales. Stem fistulose, 

 slender, even, equal ; ring entire, evanescent : gills free, at length 

 remote. — Fr.Fjncr. p. 16. Batsch.f. 206. Price f. 106. Grev.t. 

 176. Krombh. t. 25, /. 26-30. BerJc. Outl.pl. 3/ 7. Eng. Fl. v. p. 

 9. Huss. \. t. 48. Berk. Exs. no. 1. 



In fields, lawns, &c. Common. [United States.] 



Pretty, and remarkable for its strong scent. Solitary or subgregarious. 

 Pileus ^-IJ in. broad, expanded, umbonate, white, the cuticle broken into 

 rufescent scales, -nhichare either flat or reflexed. less frequent on the margin, 

 ring sometimes attached in fragments to the margin, sometimes moveable 

 on the stem, flesh firm, thin ; gills remote, numerous, slightly ventricose, the 

 margin uneven, often imbricated, tinged slightly with yellow. Stem 1-2 in. 

 high, 1-2 lines thick, tough, composed of fibres, smooth or fibrillose, hollow 

 but with a few cottony fibres, flesh towards the base reddish, with a rooting 

 mass of branched fibres. Spores white, elliptic. Smell and taste strong and 

 unpleasant. — J/. /. B. 



