78 LEPIOTA 



white, equal, fibrillose below the ring. Ring white, very small, distant, 

 entire. Gills cream colour, free, crowded. Flesh white, very thin. 

 Spores white, elliptical, 4-5 x 3/n. Cystidia none. Amongst mosses 

 and short grass in woods, and pastures. Sept. Oct. Uncommon. 

 (**) 



166. L. sistrata Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 42, t. 85, fig. A. 



Sistrum, a rattle. 



P. 1-2 cm., whitish, becoming light yellowish, or flesh colour, disc often 

 darker, slightly fleshy, campanulate, then expanded and obsoletely 

 umbonate, pruinate with shining atoms, margin often appendiculate 

 with the veil. St. 2*5-5 cm. x 1^4 mm., white, or flesh colour, equal, 

 flbrillosely silky and pruinose below the ring. Ring concolorous, fibril- 

 lose, fugacious. Gills white, free, reaching the stem, crowded, 4 mm. 

 broad, ventricose. Flesh white, often pinkish in the stem, fragile. 

 Spores white, elliptical, 3-4 x 1-5-2/i. On bare ground in woods, and 

 by roadsides. Sept. Nov. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



167. L. seminuda (Lasch) Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 43, t. 19, fig. a. 



Semi, half; nuda, naked. 



P. 12 cm., whitish, or flesh colour, becoming yellowish, very thin, 

 campanulato-expanded, umbonate, at first covered with fugacious, 

 floccose meal, margin appendiculate with the veil. St. 2-3 cm. x 1 

 2 mm., whitish, or flesh colour, equal, mealy below the ring. Ring con- 

 colorous, mealy, torn, fugacious. Gills white, then cream colour, free, but 

 reaching the st., thin, crowded, ventricose. Flesh white, often pinkish 

 in the st. Spores white, elliptical, 4 x 2/x. Smell pleasant. Amongst 

 moss in woods. Aug. Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



168. L. Bucknallii B. & Br. (= Lepiota lilacina Quel.) Boud. Bull. 

 Soc. Myc. Fr. ix (1893), t. n, as Lepiota lilacina Quel. 



Cedric Bucknall. 



P. 1-5-3 cm., white, fleshy, campanulate, then convex, minutely 

 mealy, and becoming tinged with lilac. St. 5-7 cm. x 3-5 mm., white, 

 gradually attenuated upwards, densely mealy, and becoming deep lilac 

 below the ring with age or bruising. Ring concolorous, mealy, fuga- 

 cious. Gills yellowish, free, not crowded. Flesh white, becoming deep 

 lilac in the lower two-thirds of the st. Spores white, boat-shaped, 

 7-8 x 3/Lt, 3-guttulate. Smell strong of gas-tar. Amongst grass. Oct. 

 Rare, (v.v.) 



169. L. mesomorpha (Bull.) Fr. yLteo-o?, middle; fji,op<f>ij, form. 



P. 1 -5-2-5 cm., whitish, or yellowish flesh colour, umbo deeper coloured, 

 slightly fleshy, very thin, campanulate, then expanded, at first pu- 

 bescent, then becoming smooth, or minutely granular. St. 5-7-5 cm. 



