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when allowed to accumulate on a dark surface, give rise to a whit6 

 spore-deposit. 



The whole fruit-body has a peculiar and rather unpleasant odour. 

 On collapsing, the pileus, especially at the disc, turns more or less 



Fig. 2. — Lepiota cepaestipes. Two fruit-bodies from a hot- 

 house in England, photographed at 11.30 a.m. The 

 younger fruit-body opened during the succeeding 

 evening. The older one, which is fully expanded, 

 opened on the previous evening, shed its spores in 

 the night and early morning and is about to collapse. 

 Natural size. 



brownish in colour. The expansion of the pileus usually begins in 

 the afternoon, is completed in the night, and the collapse of the 

 fruit-body takes place the following afternoon or evening. The 

 spores are chiefly shed at night and in the early morning. 



The white form of the fruit-bodies of Lepiota cepaestipes, which 

 is illustrated in Cooke's Illustrations of British Fungi (Plates 5 and 



