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18. Agaricus (Lepiota) excoriatus. Sch<;eff. "Flaky Lepiota." 



Pileus fleshy, soft, obscurely umbonate ; cuticle tbin, breaking 



up into scales ; stem bollow, short, cylindrical, scarcely bulbous, 



smooth, white ; ring moveable ; gills rather remote. — Schceff. t. 



18-19. Eng. Fl Y.p. 7. Vitt. Mang. t. 35. Kromhh. t. 1,/. 9, t 24, 



/. 24-30, Vent. t. 7. Paul. 1. 135 bis. LetelL t. 609,/. A. B. 



In pastures. May — Sept. Esculent. 



Pileus 2Jin. across, expanded, often a little irre^lar, carnose, umbonate, 

 flesh spongy, cuticle crackeJ into small areolae, silky between them, especially 

 on the margin, pale fawn, the umbo dark, gills ventricose, free, so as to leave 

 a broad space round the top of the stem, which is sunk into the substance of 

 the pileus, dull white, slightly watery, unbricate when old, sometimes broader 

 on one side of the pileus than the other, and sometimes stained with claret 

 colored blotches. Stem l|-2 in. high, |4 in. thick, attenuated regularly up- 

 wards, without a decided bulb, minutely fibrillose, hollow, but stuffed witL a 

 cottony web. Ring deflexed, moveable. Smell scarcely any. — M.J.B. Spores 

 •0005 X -00035 in.— TF. G. S. 



19. Agaricus (Lepiotai gracilentus. Kromhh. " Slender 



Lepiota,' 



Pileus rather fleshy, campanulate, then expanded, obtusely 

 umbonate ; cuticle thin, breaking up into adpressed persistent 

 patches ; stem hollow, elongated, slightly bulbous ; ring thin, free, 

 evanescent ; gills remote, broad, pallid. — Kromb, t. 24,/. 13-14. 

 Berk. Out. p. 93. 



In pastures. Esculent. 



Eesembling A . procerus but more delicate. Stem 5-6 in. long, 4-5 lin. thick, 

 obsoletely scaly. Pileus at first ovate, then campanulate, and at length flat- 

 tened, spotted with brownish scales. Spores '00043 X '0003 in.— W. G. S. 



20. Agaricus (Lepiota) mastoideus. Fr. " Bossed Lepiota." 



Pileus rather fleshy, soft, ovate, then expanded, and acutely 

 umbonate ; cuticle thin, breaking up into scattered papillee ; stem 

 hollow, equally attenuated from the bulb, weak, smooth ; ring 

 entire, moveable ; gills very remote, pallid. — Epicr.p. 1 4. Fl. Dan. 

 t. 2144. Berk. Mag. Zool. ^ Bot. i. t. 2,/. 1. Kromb. t. 24,/ 17-18. 

 Batt. t. 10,/. A. Letell. t. 609,/. D,E. 



In woods. Oct. King's Cliffe. [Cincinnati.] 



Pileus If in. across, fin. high, very strongly umbonate, with a depression 

 round the umbo, sub-carnose, epidermis breaking up into small umber papillae, 

 which are larger and more scattered towards the margin; gills remote, rather 

 narrow, yellowish ; stem 3^ in. high, slender, strongly attenuated upwards, 

 incrassated at the base, sunk into the substance of the pileus, minutely vil- 

 loso-squamose, filled within with cottony fibres. Ring deflexed, scarcely move- 

 able.— J/. /. B. 



