250 FUNGUS-FLORA. 



Lepiota polysticla. Berk. 



Pileus about li in. across, flesh thick, firm, white ; convex 

 then expanded, obtusely umbonate or quite obtuse, reddish 

 or yellowish brown, usually broken up into minute adpressed 

 scales, margin often fringed with fragments of the veil ; 

 gills free, rounded at both ends, crowded, 2-3 lines broad, 

 with a yellowish tinge; stem 1-1 J in. long, 3-4 lines thick 

 at the apex, base narrowed, scaly and coloured like the pileus 

 up to the imperfect ring, smooth and pale above, stuffed. 



Agaricus (Lepiota) polystictus, Berk., Engl. Flora, vol. v. 

 p. 9 ; Cke. Hdbk., p. 17 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 30. 



Among short grass by road sides, &c. 



Pileus I 7 y in. broad, not at all campauulate, expanded, and 

 broadly and obtusely umbonate ; flesh thick in the centre, 

 firm and tough, the epidermis broken into minute flat scales 

 of a rich red-brown. Gills numerous, unequal rounded 

 before and behind, broad, ventricose, quite free, the margin 

 serrulate, white with a slight yellowish tinge. Stem 1 in. 

 high, | in. thick in the middle, divided into two dis- 

 tinct portions, the upper one silky of a pinkish hue, the 

 lower scaly like the pileus, but the scales browner; attenu- 

 ated at the base where it is furnished with many branched 

 fibrous roots, hollow, stuffed with fine silky filaments. Eing 

 furfuraceons, attached in minute portions to the edge of the 

 pileus. Inodorous and insipid, (Berk.) 



V. MESOMOEPHI. 



Lepiota sistrata. Fr. 



Pileus --H in. across, flesh thin ; campanulate then ex- 

 panded, obtuse or at times obtusely umbonate, whitish, disc 

 often darker, tinged with yellow or flesh-colour, pruinose 

 with shining particles; gills almost free, ascending, clear 

 white, crowded, 1J-2 lines broad; stem 1 -1-2 in. long, 

 about 1 line thick^" equal, silky-fibrillose, white, fistulose, 

 loosely si uffed with loose fibrils ; ring torn, fibrillose, attached 

 to the edge of the pileus in the form of delicate fibrils, 

 fugacious. 



Agaricus (Lepiota) sistratus, Fries, Syst. Myc . i. p. 24- 

 Cke., Hdbk., p. 17; Cke., Illustr., pi. SOA. 



