72 LEPIOTA 



145. L. castanea Quel. Quel. As. Fr. (1880), t. 8, fig. 1. 



Kaaravov, the chestnut tree. 



P. 1-3 cm., reddish brown, campanulate, often umbonate, tomentose, 

 then shaggy. St. 34 cm. x 3-4 mm., white, becoming concolorous with 

 the tawny fibrils, firm, base bulbous. Ring white, narrow, thin, mem- 

 branaceous, silky, tawny on the outside, fugacious. Gills cream colour, 

 often tinged reddish when old, free, ventricose. Flesh cream colour, be- 

 coming reddish in the stem and occasionally in the pileus. Spores white, 

 oblong elliptical, or projectile-shaped, often with a spine-like appendage 

 on the one side, 10-11 x 3-5-4-5/A, 1-2-guttulate. Cystidia "hair- 

 shaped, rather broad and obtuse " Lange. Smell pleasant. Poisonous. 

 Woods, and roadsides. Sept. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



146. L. scobinella Fr. Trans. Brit. Myc. Soc. vi, t. 7. 



Scobinella, fine sawdust. 



P. 3-6 cm., mouse grey, disc darker, convex, then plane, umbonate, 

 pellicle breaking up into minute, separable, bistre scales; margin whitish, 

 smooth, silky. St. 4-6 cm. x 4-7 mm., white, stuffed, equal, slightly 

 attenuated at the apex and base, covered with white squamules that 

 become tinged with bistre below the ring, striate above. Ring whitish, 

 becoming tinged with bistre at the edge, membranaceous, superior, often 

 fugacious. Gills white, becoming yellowish, 3-4 mm. wide, ventricose, 

 free, crowded. Flesh white, often tinged with fulvous at the base of 

 the stem, thick at the disc, very thin at the margin of the pileus, 

 floccose. Spores white, elliptical, 6-7 x 3-4 /a, contents granular. 

 Cystidia hyaline, clavato-cylindrical, 28-30 x 6/4, sparse. Woods and 

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



147. L. citrophylla B. & Br. Boud. Bull. Soc. Myc. Fr. ix (1893), t. n, 

 fig. 1. /clrpov, lemon ; <f>v\\ov, gill. 



P. 1-5-2 cm., lemon yellow, covered with rufous scales, convex, then 

 expanded, obtuse, or broadly umbonate, at length depressed. St. 

 2-4 cm. x 2-4 mm., lemon yellow, equal, squamulose. Ring fugacious. 

 Gills lemon yellow, free, rounded behind, or attenuated, minutely 

 serrate. Flesh white, thin. Spores white, elliptical, 7-8 x 4ju,. On 

 the ground. Oct. Rare. 



**P. not, or rarely squamulose, often granular, mealy or pruinose. 



(a) Ring superior, fixed, subpersistent ; universal veil adnate to the p. 



Collar wanting, or similar in texture to the flesh of the p. 



L. Vittadinii (Moretti) Fr. = L. Amanita Vittadinii (Moretti) Vitt. 



148. L. naucina Fr. (= Lepiota pudica (Bull.) Quel; Psaliota cre- 

 tacea Fr.) Rolland, Champ, t. 12, no. 17. Nucinus, nutty. 



P. 5-10 cm., white, often pinkish or yellowish, the thin cuticle 

 breaking up into evanescent granules, fleshy, soft, globose, then ex- 



