252 FUNGUS-FLORA. 



Distinguished by the entire, erect ring, and the even aud 

 glabrous pileus and stem. 



Lepiota seminuda. Lasch. 



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

 panded, umbonate, floccosely mealy then naked, whitish or 

 flesh-colour, margin often fringed with the torn veil ; gills 

 touching the stem, thin, |- line broad, white ; stem 12 in. 

 long, not a line thick, equal, whitish, mealy; ring small, 

 imperfect, superior ; spores elliptical, 5 x 3 p.. 



Agaricus seminudus, Lasch, Linn., iii. no. 17; Cke., Hdblc., 

 p. 18; Cke., lllustr., pi. 19A. 



In woods, &c. 



Inodorous. Tery slender and delicate. L. sistrata differs 

 in the pileus being covered with glistening particles, and in 

 the stem being fibrillose downwards. L. Bucknalli differs in 

 the strong smell and the violet powder ou the pileus and 

 stem. 



Lepiota Bucknalli. B. & Br. 



Smell strong, resembling gas tar, Pileus |-| in. across, 

 flesh thin; campanulate then convex, white, sprinkled with 

 lilac powder, which is densest at the disc; gills touching the 

 stem, about 1 line broad, white; stem l|-3 in. high, 1 line 

 thick, more or less dilated at the base, otherwise equal, 

 .straight, white, basal half sprinkled with violet powder, 

 fistulose ; spores 7 X 3 5 p.. 



Agaricus (Lepiota} -BMc&na/ft, Berk. & Broome; Cke., Hdbk., 

 p. 18; Cke., lllustr., pi. 19fi. 



On the ground. 



Smell strong, like gas tar. (B. & Br.) 



Lepiota ianthina. Cooke. 



Pileus about f in. across, flesh thin; campanulate then 

 expanded, umbonate, whitish at the even margin, disc 

 dark violet, fibrillose, rest of pileus streaked with innate, 

 radiating, violet, hair-like squamules ; gills free, about 1 line 

 broad, lanceolate, scarcely crowded, whitish; stem about 

 1 in. long, 1 line thick, nearly equal, somewhat flexuouf, 

 whitish, soon hollow ; ring distant, narrow deciduous. 



Agaricus (Lepiota) ianthinus, Cke., Grevillea, vol. xvi. 

 p. 101 ; Cke., Hdbk., p. 363; Cke., lllustr., pi. 944A. 



