76 LEPIOTA 



fugacious. Gills cream colour, adnate, crowded. Flesh yellow. Spores 

 white, elliptical, 4-5 x 3/i. Cystidia none. Taste pleasant. Edible. 

 Coniferous woods, heaths, and lawns. Aug. Nov. Common, (v.v.) 



var. Broadwoodiae B. & Br. Miss S. Broadwood. 



Differs from the type in the delicately tomentose p., and infiexed 

 margin. Woods. Rare. 



var. alba Rene Maire. Alba, white. 



Differs from the type in being entirely white. Woods. Oct. Rare. 

 (v.v.) 



159. L. cinnabarina (A. & S.) Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 38, t. 43. 



fcivvdftapi, dragon's blood. 



P. 5-8 cm., cinnabar-colour, fleshy, convex, then plane, obtuse, 

 granuloso-furfuraceous ; margin fimbriate. St. 4-7 x 1-2 cm., con- 

 colorous, covered with reddish granules below the ring, subbulbous. Ring 

 concolorous, thin, narrow, inferior, fugacious. Gills white, free, lanceo- 

 late. Flesh ochraceous, reddish under the cuticle of the p. and st. Spores 

 white, elliptical, obtuse, 4 x 2-5-3 p,, 1-guttulate. "Cystidia hair- 

 shaped, acute" Lange. Taste pleasant. Edible. Coniferous woods. 

 Sept. Oct. Rare, (v.v.) 



var. Terreyi B. & Br. Saund. & Sm. t. 35, figs. 1-5. 



Michael Terrey. 



P. 2-5-5 cm., bright tawny, somewhat hemispherical, pulverulent, 

 roughened with minute warts. St. somewhat equal, often cylindrical, 

 covered below the ring with furfuraceous scales of the same colour as 

 the p. Ring at length torn into fragments. Gills white, remote, narrow, 

 not branched. Spores white, elliptical, 5 x 4/i. Sandy ground. Rare. 



160. L. carcharias (Pers.) Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 37, t. 42. 



tcdpxapos, sharp-pointed. 



P. 2-5 cm., flesh coloured, fleshy, convex, then plane, often umbonate, 

 covered with minute granules. St. 3-6 cm. x 4-8 mm., concolorous, 

 and covered with minute, pointed warts below the ring, apex white, sub- 

 bulbous, or equal and attenuated upwards. Ring concolorous, covered 

 on the outside with the same minute, pointed warts. Gills white, adnate. 

 Flesh whitish, or ochraceous. Spores white, elliptical, obtuse, 4-5 x 2 

 3/A, 1-3-guttulate. Taste disagreeable, smell unpleasant. Coniferous 

 woods, and amongst short grass. May Nov. Common, (v.v.) 



161. L. rosea Rea. Trans. Brit. Myc. Soc. vi, t. 2, fig. 1. 



Rosea, rose colour. 



P. 2-3-5 cm., bright rose colour, somewhat fleshy, convex, then ex- 

 panded, densely granular, or mealy, consisting of globose cells, 45- 

 50 fj. in diam. ; margin thin. St. 5-6 cm. x 3-5 mm., ivhitish, becoming 



