74 LEPIOTA 



especially where the grass is scorched by urine, and amongst short 

 grass under conifers. Aug. Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



152. L. cepaestipes (Sow.) Fr. (= Leucocoprinus cepaestipes (Sow.) 

 Pat.) Gillet, Champ. Fr. t. 414. Cepa, onion; stipes, stem. 



Caespitose. P. 2-56 cm., white, or yellowish, covered with floccose, 

 fugacious, yellowish scales, disc deeper coloured, umbonate, membra- 

 naceous, obtusely conical, then campanulate ; margin striate. St. 7-5 

 10 cm. x 5-8 mm., white, attenuated upwards from the bulbous base, 

 covered with fugacious, delicate flocci. Ring white, narrow, membra- 

 naceous, separating-free, fugacious. Gills white, then flesh colour, free, 

 at length remote, attenuated at both ends, 4 mm. broad, very 

 crowded. Flesh white, then pinkish, thin. Spores white, elliptical, 

 6-7 x 4-5/i, 1-guttulate, wfth an apical germ-pore. Taste bitter. On 

 tan in hot-houses, greenhouses, and in frames. March Oct. Not 

 uncommon, (v.v.) 



var. cretacea (Bull.) Fr. Grev. Scot. Crypt. Fl. t. 333. 



Cretacea, chalk-like. 



Differs from the type in its chalk white colour and darker scales. 

 Spores white, elliptical, 7-9 x 6-7 /A, 1-guttulate. Greenhouses, and 

 on spent tan. May Sept. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



153. L. lutea (Bolt.) Quel. (= Agaricusflos sulfuris Schnitz.) Boud. 



Icon. t. 19. Lutea, yellow. 



Entirely sulphur colour. P. 14 cm., campanulate, thin, deeply 

 striate, covered with concolorous flocci. St. 5-12 cm. x 3-4 mm., 

 covered with concolorous flocci, apex smooth, base bulbous. Ring 

 membranaceous. Gills free, remote, narrow. Flesh concolorous. 

 Spores white, oval, 8-10 x 5-7 /x, with a large central gutta. On 

 coconut fibre in greenhouses. Jan. Dec. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



154. L. medioflava Boud. Bull. Soc. Myc. Fr. x (1894), 1. 1, fig. 1. 



Medius, middle ; flava, yellow. 



P. 2-3 cm., white, soon expanded, and depressed, umbo prominent, 

 becoming light yellow, deeply striate, minutely tomentose. St. 4 

 7 cm. x 2-3 mm., white, minutely mealy above the ring, tomentose, 

 often becoming light yellow at the bulbous base. Ring white, median, 

 reflexed. Gills white, free, crowded, rounded behind. Flesh white, 

 Spores white, ovate, obtuse, 5-6 x 3/n, 1-guttulate. On decaying 

 coconut fibre, and soil in greenhouses. June Oct. Uncommon. 



155. L. pseudo-licmophora Rea. (= Lepiotalicmophoraauct. non B. & 



Br. and Petch.) 



i/reuSffc, false; \LKfios, a winnowing fan; <f>epo), I bear. 

 P. 2-5-5 cm., lemon-yellow, sometimes wholly sulphur-white, mem- 

 branaceous, plane, depressed, deeply sulcote up to the central disc, 



