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white, distant. Gills white, remote from the stem, and separated by 

 a cartilaginous collar, attenuated behind. Flesh white, becoming pink- 

 ish under the cuticle of the pileus and at the base of the st. Spores 

 white, subglobose, or elliptical, 7 x 6/i, or 7-10 x 6/x, with a large 

 central gutta. Taste pleasant. Edible. Heaths and hedgerows. Oct. 

 Dec. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



(b) Ring fixed, homogeneous with the universal veil which clothes 

 the st.; apex of st. without a cartilaginous collar; p. torn into 

 scales, or flocci. 



127. L. acutesquamosa (Weinm.) Fr. (= Lepiota aspera (Pers.) Quel.) 

 Holland, Champ. 1. 13, no. 20. Acutus, sharp; squamosa, scaled. 



P. 3-12 cm., pale ferruginous, covered with small, rigid, apiculate, 

 fuscous, deciduous warts, which leave areolate scars, fleshy, hemispheri- 

 cal, then expanded, convex, very obtuse, tomentose. St. 7-5-10 x 1- 

 2-5 cm., white, becoming ferruginous downwards with the fibrils and 

 spirally arranged scales (the remains of the universal veil) attenuated 

 upwards, base subbulbous. Ring white, becoming yellow, margin 

 sprinkled with rust coloured warts on the underside, large, soft, pendu- 

 lous from the apex of the stem. Gills white, free, very crowded, 

 lanceolate, often branched. Flesh white, thick. Spores white, ellip- 

 tical, or globose, 3-6 x 3-4/n. Cystidia " obovate-subrotund " Lange. 

 Taste slightly bitter, smell strong. Woods, pastures, and bare soil. 

 Sept. Nov. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



128. L. Friesii (Lasch) Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 1105, t. 941. 



Elias Fries, the prince of mycologists. 



P. 9-10 cm., ferruginous fuscous, covered with adpressed, tomentose, 

 reddish brown scales, very fleshy, campanulate, then convex, soft. 

 St. 8-11 x 1-5-2 cm., concolorous, cylindrical, or subbulbous, scaly at 

 the base. Ring white, superior, pendulous. Gills white, linear, free, 

 often veined, branched. Flesh white, becoming yellowish, thick at the 

 disc. Spores white, elliptical, 7 x 3-4 p, 1-guttulate. Cystidia "on 

 edge of gill vesiculose, 15-18 x 10-13/x," Rick. Smell strong, taste 

 unpleasant. On bare soil in gardens, and in oak and beech woods. 

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



129. L. hispida (Lasch) Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 14. Hispida, rough. 



P. 3-7 cm., fuscous umber, fleshy, soft, hemispherical, then ex- 

 panded, umbonate, tomentose, then breaking up into thin, pointed, 

 fugacious papillae, or scales. St. 7-5 x -5-1 cm.., fuscous umber, attenu- 

 ated upwards, densely fioccosely scaly below the ring. Ring whitish, 

 superior, membranaceous, reflexed, floccose. Gills white, remote 

 from the stem, with a prominent collar encircling the stem, crowded, 



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