234 FUNGUS-FLORA. 



A. Epidermis dry. 

 I, PKOCERL 



Lepiota procera. Scop. 



Pileus 4-9 in. across, flesh rather thick, very soft and 

 cottony, tough, permanently white; cylindrical ovate at 

 first then campanulate, finally expanded ; umbo prominent, 

 broad, and obtuse; cuticle brown, becoming broken up into 

 broad, flat, thick scales, interstices whitish ; gills terminating 

 behind in a broad, piano-depressed, cartilaginous collar that 

 carries them away from the stem, crowded, ventricose, 

 broadest in front, soft, whitish, edge sometimes brownish; 

 stem 5-8 in. long, ^ in. thick, base swollen, the remainder 

 cylindrical, firm, somewhat cartilaginous, variegated with 

 adpressed brown scales, apex inserted into a deep socket 

 in the flesh of the pileus ; internal cavity distinct, at first 

 stuffed with delicate fibrils ; ring ample, persistent, becoming 

 free and slipping down to the base of the stem ; spores 

 elliptical, 12-15 x 8-9 /t. 



Agaricus procerus, Scop., Cam., p. 418; Cke., Hdbk., p. 11 ; 

 Cke., Illustr., pi. 21. 



Pileus 3-7 in. broad, at first obtusely conic, at length 

 campanulate, strongly umbonate, fleshy, "epidermis velvety, 

 red-brown, broken into subreflexed scales, the whole re- 

 sembling brown shaggy leather ; margin white or pinkish, 

 silky; flesh soft cottony except in the centre when young. 

 Gills perfectly free, separated by a considerable sp^ace from 

 the point of insertion of the stipes, ventricose, margin ser- 

 rated, pale pinkish yellow or white. Spores white elliptic. 

 Stem_ 8-12 in. high, 1 in. thick, attenuated upwards, sunk 

 deep into the flesh of the pilous as into a socket, very bulbous, 

 scaly, hollow but stuffed with a cottony web. Ring coriaceous, 

 thick and spongy, convex below, movable. Taste and smell 

 pleasant. (Berk.) 



Far, rachodes ; Agaricus racJiodes, Vittadinsi, Fun-. 

 Mang., p. 158, t. 20 ; Cke., Hdbk., p. 11 ; Cke., Illustr., 

 pi. 22. 



Habit, and about same size as the typical form ; differing 

 more especially in the stem being quite even and not at all 



