LEPIOTA 65 



briate at the margin. Gills white, free, separated by a cartilaginous 

 collar. Flesh white, floccose. Spores white, elliptical, 14-16 x 8-9 /A. 

 Taste and smell pleasant. Edible. Woods, heaths, and upland downs. 

 Sept. Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



120. L. rhacodes (Vitt.) Fr. Boud. Icon. t. 10. paico?, ragged. 

 P. 7-18 cm., greyish ochre, covered with large, thick, angular, ragged, 



yellowish scales, which become darker at their margin, disc flat, and 

 deeper in colour, very fleshy, globose, then flattened, or depressed. 

 St. 7-25 x 1-5-2 cm., white, bruising reddish, conical, then elongated, 

 and attenuated upwards, base large, marginately bulbous, smooth. 

 Ring white, or brownish, clothed on the outside with one or two zones 

 of scales, fimbriate at the margin. Gills whitish, or reddish, free, 

 separated by a cartilaginous collar, lanceolate or ventricose, crowded. 

 Flesh white, reddening on exposure to the air, especially in the stem. 

 Spores white, elliptical, 12-15 x 6-8/i, 1-2-guttulate, with a germ- 

 pore. Cystidia "on edge of gill coloured, ventricose-bottle-shaped, 

 30-36 x 12-15^t " Rick. SmeU and taste pleasant. Edible. Under 

 trees in pastures, and in coniferous woods. July Nov. Common. 

 (v.v.) 



121. L. puellaris (Fr.) Rea. Puellaris, girlish. 

 P. 5-8 cm., white, disc gibbous and ochraceous, campanulate, then 



convex, surface breaking up into delicate, floccose scales. St. 9 

 12 x 1 cm., white, equal, slightly mealy above the ring, base sub- 

 bulbous. Ring white, movable, narrow. Gills white, free, separated 

 by a narrow, cartilaginous collar, narrowed behind, crowded. Flesh 

 white, or faintly tinted reddish. Spores white, oblong-elliptical, 12- 

 18 x 7-8 /A, 1-3-guttulate. "Cystidia obovate-bottle-shaped, 16jLt 

 broad, occasionally with a somewhat protruding apex" Lange. Taste 

 pleasant. Edible. In pastures, generally under oaks. Aug. Oct. 

 Uncommon, (v.v.) 



122. L. permixta Barla. Barla, Champ. Alp. Marit. t. 10, figs. 1-4. 



Permixta, mixed up. 



P. 12-15 cm., disc brown cinnamon, the paler ground colour else- 

 where covered with cinnamon brown patches of the cuticle, campanula to- 

 convex, then expanded, subumbonate; margin whitish, torn. St. 12- 

 15 x 1-5-2 cm., white, covered with small, irregular brownish scales, 

 base bulbous. Ring tawny brown, membranaceous, large, margin 

 fimbriate. Gills yellowish white, or flesh colour, remote from the stem, 

 and separated by a cartilaginous collar, narrowed behind, crowded. 

 Flesh white, becoming reddish, floccose. Spores "oval, elliptical or 

 almond shape, 12-20 x 8-1 2 p, hyaline, surrounded by a golden 

 ring" Sacc. Taste pleasant. Edible. Woods, and pastures. Sept. 

 Nov. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



