LEPIOTA 75 



glabrous; margin crenate. St. 7-5-10 cm. x 2-3 mm., lemon-yellow, 

 attenuated upwards, base tomentose. Eing median. Grills lemon- 

 yellow, remote, narrow, 2 mm. broad, slightly arched, distant, inter- 

 stices veined. Spores white, elliptical, 9-10 x 5 /A. In greenhouses. 

 Aug. Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



156. L. serena Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 57, t. 47, as Armillaria subcava 

 Schum. fide Boudier. Serena, clear. 



P. 2-4 cm., white, becoming yellowish with age, fragile, campanulate, 

 thin, expanded, becoming silky, margin slightly striate. St. 4-7 cm. 

 x 4-5 mm., white, becoming greyish, equal, base subbulbous. Ring 

 white, membranaceous, median, thin, narrow, erect, fugacious. Gills 

 white, free, ventricose. Spores white, elliptical, 5-6 x 4/x, multi- 

 guttulate. Amongst grass, and larch needles. Sept. Nov. Un- 

 common, (v.v.) 



(b) Universal veil sheathing the st., at first extending continuously 

 from the st. to the p., at length ruptured and forming an inferior 

 ring. P. granular or warted, consisting chiefly of globose cells. 



L. pyrenaea Quel. = Pholiota aurea (Mattusch) Fr. fide R. Maire. 



157. L. granulosa (Batsch) Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 39, t. 18, upper figs. 



only. Granulosa, granular. 



P. 3-5 cm., ferruginous, or rusty-brown, becoming pale-hoary when 

 dry, fleshy, convex then flattened, obtusely umbonate, furfuraceo- 

 granular, often wrinkled; margin appendiculate with the veil. St. 

 59 cm. x 49 mm., white at the apex, covered below with fine, brownish 

 granules, equal. Ring concolorous, membranaceous, inferior, torn. Gills 

 whitish, or cream colour, slightly adnexed, or sinuato-adnate. Flesh 

 yellowish, becoming reddish in the lower portion of the st. Spores white, 

 elliptical, 7-8 x 5 /A. "Cystidia hair-shaped, acute, small, 2-3 /u, 

 broad" Lange. Taste pleasant. Edible. Heaths, and hilly woods. 

 July Oct. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



var. rufescens B. & Br. Cke. Illus. no. 40, t. 213, upper figs. 



Rufescens, becoming reddish. 



Differs from the type in its smaller size, and the pure white p. and st. 

 partially turning red with age or when bruised. Spores oval, 34 x 2/x,. 

 Amongst beech leaves. Sept. Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



158. L. amianthina (Scop.) Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 40, t. 213, lower figs. 



a/u'ai>T09, unspotted. 



P. 3-5 cm., ochraceous, somewhat fleshy, convex, then plane, sub- 

 umbonate, furfuraceo-granulose, often wrinkled. St. 3-5 cm. x 4- 

 6 mm., whitish at the apex, covered with ochraceous granules below the 

 equal. Ring concolorous, granular on the outside, inferior, 



