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somewhat umbonate, even, glabrous, viscid, but granular, 

 rufescent or yellowish ; gills free, crowded, thin, pure white ; 

 stem 1 in. long, 1 line thick, equal, dry, whitish, covered 

 with floccose down; ring usually entire, membranaceous, 

 dry. 



Agaricus (Lepiota') delicatus, Fries, Syst. Myc., i. p. 23; 

 Cke., Hdbk., p. 19; Cke., Illustr., pi. I8n. 



In woods, also in hothouses. 



Certainly distinct from L. glioderma, although the dis- 

 tinctive features are not very pronounced. Differs in being 

 only about one-third the size; pileus not campanulate; stem 

 floccose, not squamose. (Fries.) 



Pileus hemispherical, obtuse, rivulose, viscid, smooth, 

 pallid, 1 in. across ; stem ^ in. high, ^ in. thick, transversely 

 punctate, squamulose, stuffed with flocci, white above ; veil 

 floccose, slightly appendiculate ; gills free, rounded behind, 

 approximate, pallid. The veil is really double, floccose, 

 covered with scaly particles. Taste like that of Polyporus 

 squamosus. This is clearly a stout form of Lepiota delicata, of 

 which we have a figure, from the author, closely corre- 

 sponding with our species. (B. & Br.) 



Fries mentions two varieties : pallida ; pileus yellowish 

 or pale rose ; in woods and uncultivated places ; vaporaria ; 

 pileus rufescent. 



Lepiota illinita. Fr. 



Pileus 2-3 in. across, flesh rather thin, white, soft ; ovate- 

 campanulate, then expanded; somewhat umbouate, viscid, 

 glabrous, margin slightly striate and often fimbriate, usually 

 clear white, sometimes tinged with ochraceous or tan- 

 colour; gills free, crowded, at length remote from the stem, 

 white; stem 2-3 in. long, 2-3 lines thick, white, equal, 

 glutinous, ring obsolete, stuffed then hollow. 



Agaricus (Lepiota) illinitus, Fries, Obs. Myc., xi. p. 8; 

 Fries, Icon., pi. 16, f. 1 ; Cke., Hdbk., p. 19. 



In woods. 



Entire fungus glutinous from the universal veil, which 

 forms an incomplete ring on the stem, when the pileus 

 expands ; partial veil not evident. Stem stuffed when young, 

 soon hollow, 2-3 in. long, 2-3 lines thick, equal, fragile, not 

 at all floccose or scaly, but glutinous and slimy, but dry 



