68 LEPIOTA 



ventricose. Flesh white, thin. Spores white, elliptical, 6-7 x 4/x. 

 Cystidia none. Smell of radish. Shady beech woods, and coniferous 

 woods. Aug. Oct. Eare. (v.v.) 



130. L. Badhami B. & Br. Boud. Icon. t. 11. Dr. C. D. Badham. 



Whole plant becoming saffron-red when touched or wounded, then 

 finally blackish. P. 5-12 cm., greyish, campanulate, obtuse, at length 

 expanded, often depressed and umbonate, hispid, with minute, vel- 

 vety, fuliginous scales, but sometimes entirely fuliginous without any 

 distinct scales. St. 5-18 cm. x 6-12 mm., white, silky, or floccoso- 

 scaly, attenuated above, base bulbous. King white, firm, erect, and 

 deflexed, more or less movable, often clothed with dingy granules on 

 the outside. Gills white, remote from the stem. Flesh white, instantly 

 becoming red when cut, and finally blackish. Spores white, elliptical, 

 or pip-shaped, 6-7 x 3-4/x, 1-2-guttulate. Smell rather disagreeable. 

 Under oaks, Spanish chestnuts, yews, and in hedgerows. Sept. Nov. 

 Uncommon, (v.v.) 



131. L. meleagris (Sow.) Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 26, t. 26. 



Meleagris, a guinea-fowl. 



P. 2-5 cm., fawn colour, covered with minute blackish scales, fleshy, 

 thin, ovate, or hemispherical, very obtuse, minutely tomentose and 

 warty, then expanded, somewhat campanulate. St. 4-7-5 cm. x 5- 

 8 mm., concolorous, here and there tinged with yellow, minutely squamu- 

 lose below the ring, fusiform, or attenuated upwards from the bulbous 

 base. Ring white, often covered with minute blackish scales on the out- 

 side, torn, very fugacious. Gills white, then rose colour, rarely lemon 

 colour, becoming reddish by rubbing, remote from the stem and 

 separated by a collar, rounded behind, sometimes connected, 

 ventricose. Flesh turning red, as does the whole plant when 

 dried. Spores "elliptical, 6-7 x 4/u," Massee. Taste not disagree- 

 able. Plantations, hedgerows, hot beds, and spent tan. May Oct. 

 Rare. 



132. L. emplastnun Cke. & Massee. Cke. Illus. no. 1106, t. 1164. 



fj,7r\aa-rpov, a plaster. 



P. 5-7-5 cm., pallid, covered with a smooth, membranaceous, dark 

 brown cuticle, which becomes broken up into large, persistent patches, 

 convex, then expanded, silky below the cuticle. St. 7-5 x 1-1-5 cm., 

 pallid, equal, base slightly thickened, more or less striate. Ring 

 whitish, externally brown at the margin, rather distant, erect. Gills 

 whitish, remote from the stem, crowded, narrowed behind. Flesh 

 white, becoming pink, or reddish when cut. Spores white, elliptical, 

 obliquely apiculate, 18-20 x 10-12^. Under trees. Oct. Rare. 



