64 LEPIOTA 



violaceous, free, horizontal, narrow. Flesh white, compact, soft. Spores 

 "bay purple, globose, 8/u," Quel. Smell and taste pleasant. Edible. 

 On the ground amongst ferns. Aug. Rare. 



**With a ring on the stem. 



Spores white. 



Lepiota (Pers.) Fr. 



(XeTTt?, a scale; ou<?, ear.) 



Pileus fleshy, regular. Stem central. Ring membranaceous, free, 

 or adnate, persistent, or fugacious, always manifest in the adult stage. 

 Gills free, adnate, or sinuato-adnate, often attached to a collar. 

 Spores white, rarely pinkish, or ochraceous, oval, elliptical, pip- 

 shaped, fusiform, subreniform, deltoid, or projectile shaped; con- 

 tinuous, or with a germ-pore. Cystidia rare. Growing on the ground, 

 rarely on wood. 



A. EPIDERMIS DRY. 

 *P. squamulose, or becoming broken up into scales. 



(a) Ring movable, distinct from the volva ; apex of stem 

 surrounded by a cartilaginous collar. 



118. L. procera (Scop.) Fr. Rolland, Champ, t. 11, no. 15. 



Procera, tall. 



P. 10-25 cm., whitish, the brownish cuticle breaking up into thick, 

 separable scales, ovato-acorn-shaped, then campanulate, and flattened, 

 with a broad, obtuse, prominent umbo; margin fimbriate, fibrillose. 

 St. 15-30 x 1-5-2 cm., brownish, breaking up into snake-like markings, 

 due to the slower growth of the external hyphae, cylindrical, base 

 bulbous. Ring white above, brownish on the exterior, thick, movable, 

 persistent, cartilaginous near the stem, fibrillose at the margin. Gills 

 whitish, often becoming fuscous at the edge, remote from the stem, and 

 separated by a cartilaginous collar, ventricose, crowded, broader in 

 front, soft, crowded. Flesh white, floccose. Spores white, elliptical, 

 15-18 x 10/A, multi-guttulate, with a germ-pore. Cystidia "on edge 

 of gill bottle-shaped to clavate, 40-50 x 15-20 ju" Rick. Taste and 

 smell pleasant. Edible. Woods, heaths, and pastures. July Nov. 

 Common, (v.v.) 



119. L. prominens Fr. Viv. Ital. t. 12. Prominens, prominent. 

 P. 5-10 cm., ochraceous, disc covered with brownish-ochre, imbricate 



scales, which are more sparse towards the fibrillose margin, hemi- 

 spherical, then flattened, with a prominent, darker umbo. St. 7- 

 18 x 1-2 cm., brownish, or ochraceous, with a few scattered adnate 

 squamuks, equal, base abruptly bulbous. Ring whitish, movable, fim- 



