8 Lepiota. 



with brown scales, flesh brownish when broken ; gills free ; s. white, 

 not cracked, 1215 cm., ring free ; sp. 14x8. Edible. 



Differs from L. procera in the flesh turning brown when cut. 



var. puellaris, Fr. Small, entirely white, stem flocculose. 



[Olivieri, Baria. P. convex, then exp. or depr., whitish tinged 

 fawn at disc, covered with fawn adpr. fibrillose scales ; g. broad, free 

 yellowish-white; s. whitish, base swollen, ring cottony, caducous; 

 flesh white, brick-red then brownish when broken. 



Allied to L. rachodes with which it agrees in size. 



prominens, Viv. P. 46 cm., umbo very strong, ochraceous, 

 scaly; g. white; s. 9 15 cm. slender, base swollen, ring free; 

 sp. 10x8. 



permixta, Barla. P. convex, more or less umb. campan. then 

 exp. silky, greyish fawn, centre darker, with adpr. brown scales and 

 becoming deprived of cuticle at edge ; g. pale wax or tinged red ; s. 

 cylindr. dingy white cracked into brown adpr. scales, base swollen, 

 ring brownish ; flesh reddish when broken. 



Resembles L. procera in size and marking of s. ; L. rachodes in 

 flesh becoming red ; and L. excoriata in having border deprived of 

 cuticle. 



[molybdites, Mey. P. globose then campan. broken into crusta- 

 ceous scales up to middle; g. remote, white then tinged blue; s. 

 hollow, blackish- brown, bulbous, ring equal. 



An introduced species. 



excoriata, Schaeff. P. globose then plane, 58 cm. bistre or 

 whitish, silky or squamulose ; g. free ; s. cylindrical, white, 5 8 cm. 

 hollow, ring free ; sp. 1415 x 8 9. 



L. naucina differs in the fragmentary ring. 



[carneifolia, Gill. P. fleshy, exp. brown or purple brown, glabrous 

 then minutely broken up into fascicles of fibrils ; g. fleshy, crowded, 

 distant from s. ; s. white, fibrillose, thickened at base, ring large 

 soon free. 



densifolia, GilL P. obtuse, white, soon broken up into adpressed 

 nbrillose scales ; g. closely crowded, thin, white, broadest in front ; s. 

 white, shining, ring free. 



gracilenta, Kromb. P. soon expanded, obtusely umbonate, 

 58 cm., brown patches on white ground; g. free, broad- s 

 thickened at base, 1216 cm., white, ring floccose, disappearing; sp. 

 10 1 1 x 7*5, 



Differs from L. procera in smaller size and more especially in the 

 iugacious ring. L. prominens differs in very large umbo and perma- 

 nent, free ring. 



mastoidea, Fr. Entirely whitish. P. 3-5 cm. with small 

 disappearing warts; g. free; s. narrow up from bulbous base, 

 5 8 cm., ring free ; sp. 7 8 x 5. 



Like L ' 



