250 FUNGUS-FLORA. 



* Gills whitish ; not hygroplianous. 



Leptonia placida. Fr. 



Pileus 1-1 f in. across, flesh thin, campanulate then convex, 

 not striate, the blackish disc densely downy, the remainder 

 covered with blackish fibrils or squamules on a greyish- 

 white ground, squamules arranged concentrically at last ; 

 gills adnexed, very broad behind, not ventricose, crowded ; 

 whitish, as is also the margin ; stem 2-3 in. long, 1| line 

 thick, equal, very rigid, having white meal at the slightly 

 thickened apex, and with black points when seen under a 

 lens, remainder glabrous, even, dark-blue or blackish-blue. 



Agaricus (Leptonia) placidus, Fries, Epicr., p. 191 ; Cke., 

 Hdbk., p. 129 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 330. 



On or near beech trunks, &c. 



Leptonia lappula also has black points at the apex of the 

 stem, but is distinguished from the present species by the 

 umbilicate pileus. 



Leptonia anatina. Lasch. 



Pileus 1-lf in. across, campanulate, subumbonate, dark 

 cinnamon, fibrillose or minutely squamulose ; gills adnexed, 

 seceding, rather broad, whitish then salmon-colour; stem 

 1 J in. high, 2-3 lines thick, imperfectly hollow, blue, darkest 

 towards the smooth, even apex, remainder fibrillose ; spores 

 elliptic-oblong, smooth, pink, 8 x 5 /A. 



Agaricus (Leptonia*) anatina, Lasch, n. 561 ; Fries, Hym. 

 Eur., p. 201. 



On the ground. 



Distinguished from L. lappula by the absence of black 

 points at apex of stem. 



Leptonia lappula. Fr. 



Pileus about 1J in. across, rather fleshy, convex then 

 plane, umbilicate, not striate, flocculose when young, then 

 with erect short fibrils that are crowded in the darker 

 umbilicus, grey, often with a brown tinge ; gills 2 lines 

 broad, adnate with a decurrent tooth, separating from the 

 stem, crowded, whitish, then dingy salmon-colour; stem 

 about 2 in. long, 1| line thick, slightly striate, brownish- 

 lilac, apex naked and with black points ; the stem is some- 

 times blackish-purple. 



