238 FUNGUS-FLORA. 



sooty brown, velvety or broken tip into scales; gills free, 

 distant, ventricose, 2-3 lines broad, white at first; stem 

 2-4- in. long, ^-| in. thick, base bulbous, slightly attenuated 

 upwards, whitish, silky or floccose, stuffed then hollow ; 

 ring firm, slightly loose ; spores elliptical, 5 x 3 p. 



Agaricus (Lepiota') Badhami, Berk., Outl., p. 93; Cke., 

 Hdbk., p. 13; Cke., Illustr., pi. 25. 



Under yew trees, &c. 



L. emplastrum agrees with the present in becoming red 

 when wounded, but differs in the thick, smooth cuticle 

 becoming broken into large patches as the pileus expands. 



Pileus 2-4 in. across, at first campanulate obtuse, at length 

 expanded, often depressed and umbonate, hispid, with minute, 

 velvety, fuliginous scales, but sometimes entirely fuliginous 

 without any distinct scales. Stem 2-3 in. high, -| ^ in. or 

 more thick, attenuated above, bulbous below, white, silky or 

 floccoso-squamose, stuffed with cottony threads ; ring firm, 

 erect and deflexed, more or less movable beneath, frequently 

 clothed with dingy granules ; gills truly remote, ventricose, 

 rather broad; spores elliptic, -0003 in. long, flesh tolerably 

 compact. The whole plant when wounded assumes a rich 

 red tint. A splendid Agaric, resembling some forms of 

 A. clypeolarius, but more robust. In some specimens the 

 surface is decidedly scaly, in others simply velvety. The 

 margin often projects beyond the gills and is delicately 

 silky and fimbriated. The stem, though bulbous, is by no 

 means marginate. Smell rather disagreeable. (B. & Br.) 



Lepiota emplastra. Cke. & Mass. 



Pileus 2-3 in. across, flesh thick, firm, white, but like that 

 of the stem becoming pink or reddish when cut; convex, 

 then expanded, when young covered with a thin, smooth, 

 dark brown cuticle that becomes broken up into large, 

 rregular, persistent patches as the pileus expands, and is 

 then entirely Absent from the even margin, pallid and silky 

 below the cuticle ; gills free, remote from the stem, crowded, 

 l|-2 lines broad, narrowed behind, whitish ; stem about 3 in. 

 long, | in. thick slightly thickened at the base, otherwise 

 equal, more or less striate, pallid, hollow ; ring rather distant, 

 erect, externally brown at the margin ; spores elliptical or 

 pip-shaped, obliquely apiculate, 18-20 x 10-12 A. 



