70 LEPIOTA 



137. L. alba (Bres.) Sacc. Bres. Fung. Trid. t. 16, fig. 1, as Lepiota 



clypeolaria Bull. var. alba Bres. Alba, white. 



P. 3-7 cm., whitish, becoming yellowish with age, fleshy, convex, then 

 expanded, broadly umbonate, disc glabrous ; margin fibrillosely floc- 

 culose, then squamulose. St. 4-6 cm. x 8-10 mm., white, somewhat 

 fuscous at the base, equal, or attenuated downwards, white floccose and 

 spotted below the ring, often forming a spurious second ring, finally 

 becoming glabrous. Ring white, floccose and yellow on the outside, 

 striate inside, distant, fugacious. Gills white, then ochraceous, free, 

 crowded, 5-7 mm. broad. Flesh white, somewhat yellowish in the stem. 

 Spores white, obovate-oblong, rounded at the one end, apiculate at 

 the other, 11-14 x 6-7 p, 1-guttulate. Edible. Heaths, and hillsides. 

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



138. L. gracilis (Quel.) Rea. GracUis, slender. 

 P. 2-3 cm., whitish, disc brown, becoming broken up into brownish or 



rufous squamules, convex, then plane, floccose; margin white, be- 

 coming torn. St. 3-4 cm. x 3-5 mm., whitish, becoming discoloured, 

 equal, smooth. Ring white, with a few scattered brownish squamules, 

 median, silky, floccose, fugacious. Gills white, free, crowded. Flesh 

 white, thin, floccose. Spores white, pip-shaped, or elliptical with an 

 oblique basal apiculus, 9-11 x 5-6//,. Cystidia none. Under beeches. 

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



139. L. fulvella Rea. Trans. Brit. Myc. Soc. vi, t. 2, fig. 2. 



Fulvella, somewhat tawny. 



P. 3-5 cm., somewhat tawny, fleshy, convexo-campanulate, then 

 expanded and subumbonate, covered with closely adpressed, darker 

 squamules; margin thin. St. 3-6 cm. x 3-6 mm., concolorous, equal, 

 or attenuated downwards, hollow, smooth. Ring whitish, inferior, 

 fugacious. Gills pallid, then ochraceous, 4-6 mm. broad, free, rounded 

 behind, crowded. Flesh whitish, watery. Spores white, oblong, angu- 

 lar, truncate at the base, acute, or acutely angular at the apex, 9- 

 10 x 3-5-4 JJL, 1-2-guttulate; basidia clavate, 4-sterigmata. Cystidia 

 subglobose, or pyriform, 14-18 x 8-12/z. Smell and taste none. Bare 

 soil in woods. Sept. Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 

 L. metulaespora B. & Br. The records of this as British are erroneous ; 



they should be referred to Lepiota clypeolaria (Bull.) Fr. as 



defined above. 



140. L. helveola Bres. Trans. Brit. Myc. Soc. iv, t. 8. 



Helveola, pale yellowish. 



P. 1-5-3 cm., madder brown, somewhat fleshy, convex, then ex- 

 panded, subumbonate, scaly. St. 2-4 cm. x 3-7 mm., concolorous, 

 equal, fibrilloso-tomentose. Ring whitish, distant, fugacious. Gills 



