LEPIOTA 77 



concolorous, equal, hollow, smooth. Ring concolorous, membranace- 

 ous, medial, narrow, soon fugacious. Gills whitish, then ochraceous, 

 free, rounded behind, crowded, 45 mm. broad. Flesh whitish, be- 

 coming reddish especially in the stem. Spores white, elliptical, 5 x 3ja, 

 1-guttulate; basidia clavate, with 4-sterigmata. Cystidia none. Bare 

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



162. L. atrocrocea W. G. Sin. Ater, black; crocea, saffron. 

 P. 3-4 cm., bright salmon orange, more or less covered with purple 



brown, almost black, granular fiocci, expanded, then slightly depressed. 

 St. bright salmon orange, attenuated upwards, covered with salmon 

 brown squamules. Ring fugacious. Gills salmon white, broadly adnate. 

 Flesh salmon orange brown, thin. Oct. Rare. 



163. L. haematosperma (Bull.) Boud. (= Lepiota echinata (Roth) 

 Boud.) Boud. Icon. t. 12. alpa, blood; crTre/o/x-a, seed. 



P. 2-3-5 cm., blackish grey, more or less olivaceous, convex, then 

 plane, very thin, fragile, finely granular', margin paler, appendiculate 

 with the veil. St. 3^6 cm. x 2-3 mm., dark, becoming vinous, equal, 

 or slightly bulbous, base covered with pulverulent, fugacious granules. 

 Ring reddish, floccose, granular on the outside, inferior, fugacious. 

 Gills blood red, free, ventricose, rounded behind. Flesh whitish, be- 

 coming reddish under the epidermis and in the stem. Spores pale 

 ochraceous in the mass, becoming reddish with age, elliptical, 45 x 3/A. 

 Cystidia none. Smell strong. Hedgerows, gardens, and occasionally 

 in woods. July Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



164. L. polysticta Berk. Cke. Illus. no. 41, t. 30. 



TroXu?, many; o-rt/cro?, spotted. 



P. 2-^5 cm., ochraceous, covered on the obtusely umbonate disc with 

 minute red brown scales from the breaking up of the cuticle, fleshy, 

 firm, tough, convex, then expanded ; margin often appendiculate with 

 the veil. St. 3-5 cm. x 5-9 mm., white at the apex, densely clothed with 

 reddish, ferruginous scales below the ring, equal, or attenuated down- 

 wards. Ring concolorous, very narrow, inferior, very fugacious. Gills 

 white, then yellowish, free, rounded before and behind, broad, ventri- 

 cose, crowded. Flesh, whitish, slightly reddish under the epidermis of 

 the st. and p. Spores white, sub-globose, 4 x 3jn, 1-4-guttulate. Open 

 pastures, and amongst short grass in woods. Sept. Nov. Un- 

 common, (v.v.) 



(c) Smaller, slender. P. dry, cuticle entire, not scaly nor granular. 



165. L. parvannulata (Lasch) Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 16, fig. 3. 



Parvus, small; annulata, ringed. 



P. 12 cm., white, becoming yellowish when dry, thin, ovato-cam- 

 lulate, then plane, pruinose, then silky. St. 1-2 cm. x 2-3 mm., 



