LEPIOTA 79 



x 2 mm., concolorous, slightly attenuated upwards, silky. Ring mem- 

 branaceous, floccose, superior, entire, spreading, fugacious. Gills 

 whitish, or cream colour, free, crowded, ventricose. Flesh white, thin. 

 Spores white, elliptical, 6-8 x 3-4/u, guttulate. Woods. Sept. Nov. 

 Uncommon. 



170. L. ianthina Cke. Cke. Illus. no. 1112, t. 944, fig. A. 



Idv6ivo<f, coloured violet. 



P. 2 cm., whitish, covered with violet, radiating, hair-like squamules, 

 umbonate disc dark violet, fibrillose, thin, campanula te, then expanded. 

 St. 2-3 cm. x 2-3 mm., whitish, subequal, somewhat flexuose. Ring 

 distant, narrow, fugacious. Gills whitish, free, 2 mm. broad, lanceo- 

 late, scarcely crowded. Flesh white, thin. Stoves. March. Rare. 



171. L. martialis Cke. & Massee. Cke. Illus. no. 1112, t. 944, fig. B. 



Martialis, belonging to Mars. 



P. 2-3 cm., clear deep pink, disc darker, becoming yellowish with age, 

 thin, campanulate, then plane, minutely silky, margin striate. St. 

 2-5-4 cm. x 3 mm., pale ochraceous at the apex, pinkish red below the 

 ring, slightly attenuated upwards. Ring white, broad, pendulous, 

 rather distant, persistent. Gills whitish, free, 2 mm. broad, somewhat 

 lanceolate, rather crowded. Flesh white, thin. Spores white, elliptical, 

 8 x 4jti. On the trunk of a tree fern. March. Rare. 



172. L. submarasmioides Speg. 



Sub, somewhat; Marasmius e'So?, like a Marasmius. 



P. 2-5 cm., pale buff, umbo taivny, convex, then expanded, floccosely 

 wrinkled towards the margin. St. 5 cm. x 3 mm., white, equal, slightly 

 striate. Ring whitish, superior, fugacious. Gills ochraceous, free, 

 3 mm. wide, rounded at both ends, crowded. Flesh white, reddish 

 under the epidermis of the p. and in the st., tough. Spores pale ochrace- 

 ous, deltoid, or pyramidal, 5-6 x 3/x,. On bare ground, Malvern Hills. 

 Sept. Rare, (v.v.) 



B. EPIDERMIS VISCID. 



173. L. medullata Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 16. Medullata, pithy. 



P. 4-7 cm., white, often greyish at the disc, slightly fleshy, convexo- 

 plane, umbonate, viscid; margin appendiculate with the veil. St. 

 7-5 cm. x 6 mm., white, dry, equal, silky and squamulqse below the 

 ring, apex striate, stuffed with a distinct separable pith. Ring white, 

 incomplete, torn. Gills white, free, broader in front, ventricose, crowded. 

 Flesh white, soft, watery. Smell strong of radish. Coniferous woods. 

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



