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



defunct »genus« will have been disposed of and distributed to 

 the heirs which are next in kind. 



To recapitulate: The above-named so-called Armillarias I 

 classify as follows: 



Lepiota mellea Colly bia mucida 



Tricholoma robusta (and its allies) Pleurotus corticatus 



— aurantia Pholiota erebia. 



— cingulata (Armill. denigrata Fr.) 



— ramentacea. 



Besides to Armillaria and Amanita the genus Lepiota also 

 affines to some other genera, by some intermediate species: 



1) Pholiota. — Ph. aurea, one of the most magnificent 

 agarics, at once suggests a mammoth Lepiota amianthina. It 

 has its peronate stem, its mealy-granular universal veil etc. 

 This has made Quélet place it in Lepiota (sub. nom. L. jurana) 

 in spite of its yellow spores. [The Pholiota aurea of Fries he 

 erroneously refers to Ph. spectabilis]. Still, as the spores are 

 not at all of the Lepiota amianthina-type, I hesitate to follow 

 Quélet and shall retain it in Pholiota. 



2) Psallioia. — Agaricus hæmatospermus (echinatus) is by 

 some authors placed in Psalliota (by others, for no good reason, 

 in Inocybe). This species Quélet, also refers to Lepiota, and I 

 think rightly so. For not only macroscopically, but also micro- 

 scopically it agrees perfectly with such species of Lepiota as 

 L. seminuda, except for the somewhat coloured sporepowder. — 

 Psalliota cretacea is to me a rather dubious species. The figures 

 of Fries (Sveriges ätl. sv.) are very much like Lepiota naucina. 

 This is also the case with the plant called 



3) Annalaria lævis. Although the sporepowder of this agaric 

 is said to be pink, I think it exceedingly probable that Quélet, 

 Ricken a. o. are right in regarding it as identical with Lep. 

 naucina (pudica), which certainly has white sporepowder, but 

 whose gills are inclined to turn pale pinkish. — The descriptiou 

 of Annularia lævis fits my Lepiota naucina like a glove. 



Classification. — I do not think it right fundamentally 

 to alter the systematic arrangement of Fries. But the introduc- 

 tion of microscopic characters in the diagnoses not only 

 gives more precision to the determination of the species; it also 



