236 FUNGUS-FLORA. 



quite young, whitish when expanded and spotted with the 

 adpressed, broken up patches of the brown cuticle ; gills 

 free, remote from the stem, very broad, pallid ; stem 5-6 in. 

 long, 3-5 lines thick, more or less bulbous at the base, 

 whitish, hollow ; ring thin, floccose, disappearing. 



Agaricus gracilentus, Krombholz, t. 24, figs. 13, 14; Cke., 

 Hdbk., p. 12; Cke., Illustr., pi. 28. 



In pastures, also in woods. 



Eesembling L. procera, but more delicate. Stem 5-6 in. 

 long, 4-5 lines thick, obsoletely scaly. Pileus at first ovate, 

 then carapanulate, and at length flattened, spotted with 

 brownish scales. (W. G. Smith.) 



Lepiota mastoidea. Fr. 



Everywhere whitish. Pileus 1-lJ in. across, flesh thin, 

 soft; ovate or campanulate then expanded, acutely um- 

 bonate, the cuticle breaking up into warts which eventually 

 disappear; gills free, very distant from the stem, li line 

 broad, pallid; stem 2-3 in. high, 1J-2 lines thick, equally 

 narrowing upwards from the bulbous base, glabrous, hollow ; 

 ring entire, movable. 



Agaricus (Lepiota) masloideus, Fries, Syst. Myc., i. p. 20 ; 

 Cke., Hdbk., p. 12; Cke., Illustr., pi. 24? 



In woods, &c. 



The most slender of the present section ; entirely whitish. 

 (Fries.) 



Distinguished from species in other sections which it 

 somewhat resembles, in the gills being very distant from 

 the stem, movable ring, and glabrous stem. Cooke's figures 

 quoted above, if the right species, diifer in having the pro- 

 minent umbo dark brown, and the remainder of the pallid 

 p ileus ornamented with small brown patches more or less 

 concentrically arranged. 



II. CLYPEOLARII. 



Lepiota acutesquamosa. Weinm. 



Pileus 45 in. across, flesh thick, firm, pure white; 

 hemispherical when young, then expanded and convex, very 

 obtuse, pale ferruginous, adpressedly downy, and rough 



