LEPIOTA 69 



133. L. biornata B. & Br. Cke. Illus. no. 27, t. 37. 



Bis ornata, doubly adorned. 



P. 2-5-5 cm., white, or yellowish, sprinkled with scattered, minute, 

 dark red scales, fleshy, convex, broadly campanulate. St. 10 cm. 

 x 8 mm., whitish spotted with red, attenuated at the base, rooting. 

 Eing white, spotted at the edge like the pileus, descending. Gills 

 white, approximate, ventricose, 4 mm. broad. Flesh white, or yellow, 

 reddish in the stem. Spores white, elliptical, 10 x 8/i. The whole plant 

 becomes blackish when dry. Melon, and cucumber frames. July. 

 Eare. 



134. L. clypeolaria (Bull.) Fr. (= Lepiota metulaespora B. & Br. of 

 many British authors.) Cke. Illus. no. 28, t. 27, as Lepiota 

 hispida Lasch. Clypeus, a shield. 



P. 3-7-5 cm., very variable in colour, at first covered with a yellow, or 

 'brownish, dense felt, which breaks up into floccose, torn patches, fleshy, 

 campanulate, then convex, and flattened, disc gibbous; margin ap- 

 pendiculate with the remains of the ring. St. 6-8 cm. x 4-10 mm., 

 concolorous, equal, or slightly thickened at the base, fragile, clothed 

 with the same felt-like covering below the ring. Eing concolorous, floccose, 

 fugacious. Gills white or becoming yellow, free, 6 mm. broad, soft, some- 

 what crowded. Flesh white, floccose. Spores white, fusiform, 14- 

 15 x 6jLt, 1-many-guttulate. Smell and taste pleasant. Edible. 

 Woods. Sept. Oct. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



135. L. clypeolarioides Eea (= Lepiota clypeolaria Auct. plur. non 



Quel.) Cke. Illus. no. 29, t. 38, as Lepiota clypeolaria Bull. 



Clypeolaria etSo?, resembling L. clypeolaria. 



P. 35 cm., tan colour, covered with small, adpressed reddish brown 

 scales and fibrils, fleshy, convex, obtusely umbonate, then plane and 

 depressed. St. 7-5-10 cm. x 4-8 mm., concolorous, scaly below the 

 ring, slightly attenuated upwards. Eing concolorous, narrow, distant. 

 Gills white, becoming yellowish, free, crowded. Flesh white. Spores 

 white, elliptical, 6-8 x 3-4/u,, or 8 x 5/x, 1-guttulate. Woods, and 

 hedgerows. Sept. Nov. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



136. L. pratensis (Fr.) Eea. Pratensis, growing in meadows. 

 P. 2-5 cm., yellowish tawny, disc darker, margin paler, convex, then 



expanded, obtusely umbonate, almost smooth. St. 6-7 cm. x 6-10 mm., 

 yellowish, densely clothed with erect, white flocci up to the ring. Eing 

 white, floccose, somewhat fugacious. Gills white, free, attenuated at 

 both ends, crowded. Flesh white, brownish under the epidermis and 

 at the base of the stem. Spores white, fusiform, 12-14 x 4-5/z, 1-2- 

 guttulate. Smell and taste pleasant. Edible. Heaths, hillsides, and 

 pastures. Aug. Nov. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



