LEPIOTA' 249 



obtusely umbonate, at length, often plane or depressed, some- 

 what wrinkled, covered with furfuraceous scales. Gills 

 white or yellowish white, fixed to the stem, ventricose and 

 nearly free in depressed specimens. Stem 1-3 in. high, 1-4 

 lines thick, slightly incrassated at the base, when young 

 solid, but in age hollow, with a core occasionally running 

 down from the centre of the pileus, and the base stuffed, 

 sometimes slightly compressed, with a subfugacious floccu- 

 lose ring about the middle, above which it is slightly 

 fibrillose and beneath it scaly, like the pileus. In the white 

 variety above mentioned the pileus and stem were mealy 

 rather than scaly and the ring attached in fragments to the 

 edge of the pileus. (Berk.) 



Var. rufescens, B. & Br., Ann. Nat. Hist., n. 1834; 

 Cke., Hdbk., p. 16; Cke., Illustr., pi., 213A. 



This curious form was found near Bristol, by Mr. 

 Bucknall, pure white at first, then partially turning red, 

 and in drying acquiring everywhere a rufous tint. 



I have not seen the variety indicated above, but judging 

 from the figure in Cooke's " Illustrations," it is about the size 

 of the typical form, ring obsolete or nearly so, and the stem 

 almost smooth throughout. 



Lepiota amianthina. Scop. 



Pileus |-1 in. across, flesh thin, yellow; convex then 

 plane, more or less umbonate, granulosely scurfy, pale 

 ochraceous; gills adnate, crowded, about l line broad, 

 white then with a yellow tinge; stem li-2 in. long, about 

 1 line thick, equal, squamulose up to the ring, smooth above, 

 pale, fistulose, flesh yellow. 



Agaricus amianthinns, Scopoli, Cam., xi. p. 434; Cke., 

 Hdbk., p. 17 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 213s. 



In woods, pastures, &c. 



Distinguished from allied species by the adnate gills and 

 yellow flesh, especially that of the stem. 



Far. Broadwoodiae, B. & Br.; Cke., Hdbk., p. 17. 



Pileus hemispherical, yellow, delicately tomentose, margin 

 incurved; stem equal, and, as well as the ring, mealy; gills 

 white, adnate, sometimes decurrent. 



A very distinct variety, if not species. (B. & Br.) 



