26 Dansk Botanisk Arkiv, Bd. 2, Nr. 3. 



of the cap, which at first is incurved, overreaching the gills. 

 Stem 6 — 7 cm long, about 1 cm thick, attenuated from the 

 about 2 cm broad subbulbous base, minutely fibrillose (base 

 sparingly set with floccose scales), whitish, with a slight tinge 

 of pale brown, cavity filled with arachnoid filaments. The 

 tissue of the stem is distinct from the cap, and a very narrow 

 collarium separates the gills from the apex of the stem. Gills 

 lanceolate, crowded, whitish, later on slightly flushed with a 

 gilvous tint. Odour faint, not unpleasant. 



This species seems to be somewhat related to L. Boudieri, but 

 dillers from almost all other Lepiotas by its ringless stem and 

 arachnoid veil. 



13. L. castanea Quel. 



Of this species I have met with two forms: 



I. Spores projectile-shaped (occasionally almost bicornute), 

 9 — 1172 X 3 3 /4 — 47 2 u. Cystidia hair-shaped (rather broad and 

 obtuse). 



Fig. specim.: Hæsbjerg, on the ground under Picea, rather 

 numerous, Oct. 1898. (Also found in similar locality, Aalsbo Bak- 

 ker 1899). In this form the gills turn bright brownish-red with 

 age, especially towards the edge (transition to L. Boudieri). The 

 cuticle of the young, unexpanded cap is almost glabrous. 



II. Spores of the same shape, but a little larger (10 — 13 X 4 — 5uJ. 

 In this form (not figured) the gills do not turn red (although the 

 flesh does), and the cap is originally somewhat felty. It is met 

 with occasionally in as well foliaceous as coniferous w r oods, but 

 can hardly be considered a distinct species. 



14. L. cristata (Alb. et Schw.). 



Spores projectile-shaped, 6 — 1 1 / 2 X 3 [i. Cystidia inflated obovate, 

 crowded, 12 — 16 u broad. 



Fig. specim.: Hjallese, roadside-bank, outskirts of copsewood, 

 Oct. 1898. — Common, but rather sporadic, in gardens, woods and 

 other shady localities. 



[Schroeteh (1. cit.) says L. cristata has hair-shaped cystidia. I 

 have met — but only once — a single specimen with cystidia 

 of that type. Macroscopically it could not be distinguished from 

 the ordinary L. cristata]. Conf. also no: 18. 



15. L. helveola Bres. var. (?) (Plate I, fig. c.) 



Spores projectile-shaped, 7 1 /» — 8 x 3 u.. 



Fig. specim. : Lundsgaard Storskov, on the ground in moist 

 wood of Fagus, a few r specimens, Sept. 1905. 



Cap 2 — 4 cm, convex-expanded, slightly umbonate, surface spa- 

 ringly covered with adpressed, fibrinous scales (not cracked-gra- 

 nulate), gilvous or somewhat orange, umbo slightly darker (sub- 

 fulvous) and almost without scales, edge paler. Stem slender (about 



