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AGAEICINI. 



red -brown, witli shining, closely-pressed, brown fibrils; gills ad- 

 nate, thin, ventricose, saffron yellow, then red brown. — Fr. Ep. 

 p. 314. B. 4- Br. Ann. N.H. (1866) no. 1130. 



In woods. Aug. King's Cliffe. 



Stem 2-3 in. high, 2 lines thick, internally darker, base whitish. Veil 

 obsolete. Pileus 1 in., striate to the middle when moist. Gills 2 lines 

 broad, veined at the base. Spores '0003 in. long. 



Gen. 5. 



LEFISTA. Smith. Seem. Journ. 1870. 



Spores (as well as the whole plant) 

 dirty white ; pileus with an involute 

 margin gradually increasing indefi- 

 nitely ; stem continuous with the horny 

 hymenophore ; gills fragile, persistent, 

 decurrent, anastomosing behind or 

 branching, membranaceous, entire, with 

 a sharjD edge, supported by a horny 

 trama. {F'ig. 47.) 



Hab. All the species are terrestrial. 



The character of the spores, the presence of 

 a trama, and the habitat of the section of 

 Lepista of Paxilhis, as established by Fries, 

 appear to me to be so important that I have 

 given it a generic position. — W. G. S. 



544. 



Lepista nuda. Bull. " Amethyst Lepista." 



Pileus fleshy, rather thin, convex, then expanded and de- 

 pressed, obtuse, smooth, moist, changing colour ; margin inflexed, 

 thin, naked ; stem stuffed, elastic, equal, rather mealy ; gills 

 rounded behind, or slightly decurrent, crowded, narrow, violet, 

 stained when old with reddish-brown. — Bull. t. 439. Fr. Epicr. 

 p. 48. Kromhh. t. 71, f. 27-29. Price./. 35. Paul. t. 78,/. 3. 

 Berk. Outl. t. 4,/. 7. Eng. Fl. Y.p. 20. 



In plantations, woods, &c., especially among pines. 



[United States.] 



Smaller than L.personata, and more brightly coloured. Pileus 2 in. broad, 

 thin, obtuse, plane or sub-depressed, at first amethyst-coloured, but chang- 

 ing to a pinky rufous, margin involute. Gills of the same colour as the pileus, 

 rounded behind, sometimes adnate-decurrent, connected and traversed by 

 veins. Stem 2 in. high, 3-4 lines thick, stuffed, sub-equal, at first fibrillose, 

 at length nearly smooth, more or less of the colour of the pileus.- M. J.B-, 

 Spores dirty white, '0002 X '00013 in. (Fig. 47, reduced.) 



