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Agaricus (Lepiota) ermineus. Fr. " Ermine Lepiota." 

 Pileus fleshy, even, smooth, at length silky about the margin ; 



stem fistulose, equal, smooth ; ring erect, becoming lacerated; gills 



approximate. — Fr. S. M. ii. p. 22. Sv. Bot. t. 596 /. 1. Krombh. 



t. 25. /. 34, 85. Fr. Ep. p. 15 B. % Br. Ann. N. H. no. 1184. 

 In grassy places. Coed Coch. 

 Fragile, wholly white, inodorous, with the taste of radishes. 



Krombholz says that the spores are fusiform. 



Agaricus (Lepiota) ramentaceus. fivll. — Bull. t. 595. f. 3. 

 Agaricus {Armillaria) ramentaceus. Cooke, Hdbh. no. 35. 

 Under trees. Coed Coch. 

 In the " Handbook," No. 35, this is referred to Armillaria. 



Agaricus (Lepiota) sistratus. Fr. " Fibrous-ringed Lepiota." 



Pileus fleshy, rather thin, cahipanulate, pruinose ; stem sub-fis- 

 tulose, equal, ring and stem below it, fibrillose ; gills nearly free, 

 ascending, white.— Fr. S.M. 1. p. 24. Fr.Ep. p. 18. B. $ Br. 

 Ann. N.H. no. 1185. bis. 



On sandy ground. Forres. 



This pretty species is remarkable for the filamentous ring. 



Agaxicus (Lepiota) delicatus. Fr. " Delicate Lepiota." 

 Pileus somewhat fleshy, convexo -plane, smooth, even, viscid ; 

 stem fistulose, squamulose ; ring densely floccose ; gills free, 

 crowded, thin.— Fr. S.M. i. p. 23. Fr. Ep. p. 20. B. $ Br. Ann. 

 N.H. no. 1186. 



About an old stump. Sept. Powerscourt. 

 Pileus hemispherical, obtuse, rivulose, viscid, smooth, pallid, 

 lin. across; stem 1 in. high \'m. thick, transversely punctate, 

 squamulose, stuffed with flocci, white above ; veil floccose, slightly 

 appendiculate ; gills free, rounded behind, approximate, pallid. The 

 veil is really double, floccose, covered with scaly particles. Taste 

 like Polyporus squamosus. — B. fy Br. 



Agaxicus (Armillaria) robustus. A. § S. " Robust Armillaria." 



Pileus fleshy, compact, convexo-plane, unequal, smooth ; stem 

 solid, short, attenuated downwards, rooting, fibrillose above the 

 ring, white below; gills emarginate, reaching the stem. — A. $ S., 

 p. 147. Fr. S.M. i.p. 26. Fr.Ep. p. 21. Krombh. t. 2b. f. 15-20. 

 Br. Bath Trans. 1870, p. 59. 



In woods, &c. Leigh Down, Bristol. 



Short, robust, pleasant ; pileus bay, tawny, or reddish, variable 

 in size. 



Agaricus (Armillaria) denigritus. Fr. " Smutty Armillaria." 



Pileus hemispherical, obtuse, fleshy, tawny ; flesh whitish ; stem 

 subequal, solid ; striate above the ring, white ; gills adnexed, 

 tawny. — Fr. in Mus. Suec. B. $ Br. Ann. N.H. no. 1187. 



On a grass plot near shrubs. Coed Coch. 



At first sight very like A. Leveillei, but the white spores at once 

 distinguish it. — B. (j* Br. 



