LEPIOTA 241 



almost naked and pallid, fibrillose ; striate above the ring, 

 stuffed then hollow; spores elliptical, 6 x 4 /x. 



Agaricus clypeolarius, Bull., Champ. Fr., t. 405, f. 2 ; Cke., 

 Hdbk., p. 14; Cke., Illustr., pi. 38. 



In woods, hothouses, &c. 



Distinguished from L. cristata by the squamulose stem, 

 and more especially by the gills being very close to the 

 stem behind. Smell weak or absent. 



Fries mentions the following forms : (_B). In shady pine 

 woods ; stem covered with a white, floccose woolliness ; disc 

 of pileus not broken up, remainder woolly, yellowish red or 

 becoming pale. (0). In densely shaded beech woods on 

 damp, rotten leaves, a slender form with a floccosely 

 squamulose stem ; pileus white, ornamented with con- 

 centric brown scales. (D). In swampy places ; pileus rosy, 

 squamulose. 



Stem 2-31 in. high, 2 lines thick, hollow but stuffed with 

 cottony fibres, whitish, pale brownish or rufescent, the 

 whole clothed with fibrillose scales. Eing sometimes re- 

 maining on the stem, but more generally attached to the 

 margin of the pileus or evanescent. Inodorous and insipid. 

 Bearing some resemblance to A. procerus, but smaller and 

 more delicate. (Berk.) 



Variable in colour, white, yellow, pink, rufous, brown, &c. 

 Pilous 1^ in. broad, whitish, with reddish scales; stem 

 2-3| in. high, 2 lines thick. Inodorous and insipid 

 (Cooke.) 



It is very desirable that the spores of this species and 

 allied forms should be caiefully observed, as they seem to 

 be the surest distinction between this species and Lep. 

 cristata. (B. & Br.) 



Lepiota felina. Pers. 



Pileus 1-1 1 in. across, flesh thin ; ovate-campanulate then 

 expanded, more or less umbonate, black when quite young, 

 after expansion there is a black patch at the disc, the rest 

 white, scaly, each minute scale tipped with black, scales 

 arranged more or less concentrically, as indicated by the 

 delicate, black, broken rings; gills free, rather distant, l 

 line broad margin serrulate ; stem 2 in. long, 1 lino thick at 

 the apex, becoming thickened downwards, white, sometimes 



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