10 Lepiota. 



pallid, tinged red ; s. rosy, blackish scales below silky ring, pale 

 above. 



Much more slender than L. hispida. 



[Morieri, Gill. P exp. umb. white, shining, covered with reddish 

 scales, umbo smooth, edge appendiculate : g. white, edge denticulate ; 

 s. fibrillose, white, shining, ring ample. 



clypeolaria, Bull. 5 8 cm. campaa, at first incrusted, umb. 

 tawny, remainder with brownish scales ; g. free ; s. 6 8 cm., fibril- 

 losely squamulose up to ring, striate above ; sp. 6 x 4. 



Differs from L. hispida in pileus not being tomentose, and paler 

 colour. From L. cristata by squamulose stem. 



fbrunneoincarnata, Chod. and Mart. P. subglobose then 

 cam pan. -conic and umb. with scattered rufescent scales ; g. free, 

 white ; s. fistulose, equal, colour of p. 



[Forquignoni, Q. P. white, silky, umbo olive ; g. becoming 

 rosy ; s. white. 



felina, Pers. P. 2 3 cm. camp, expanded, umbo black, rest 

 with concentric black scales on a white ground ; g. free ; s. 3 5 cm., 

 white, sometimes with black specks ; sp. 10x5. 



metulaespora, B. and Br. P. 2 3 cm. campan. then expanded, 

 margin coarsely striate, whitish-yellow with pale squamules ; g. 

 almost free ; s. 4 6 cm., pale lemon yellow inside and out ; sp. 

 fusiform, 15 16x6. 



cristata, A. and S. P. 2 4 cm. soon expanded, reddish-brown 

 cuticle at first continuous, then broken up into concentric scales on a 

 whitish ground ; g. free ; s. 4 6 cm., whitish, fibrillose ; sp. 7 x 4. 



Differs from L. clypeolaria in stem not being squamulose. 



[lilacea, Bres. P. convex-campan. exp. depr. sometimes umb. 

 purple-lilac then pale and broken up into fuscous squamules ; 

 g. free, white ; s. fibrillosely scurfy, then almost glabrous, whitish 

 then pinkish lilac, ring inf. persistent blackish violet underneath; 

 sp. 45 x 22'5. 



Differs from Lepiota cristata in absence of smell, a feature which 

 also separates it from L. Bucknallii. 



nigro-marginata, Mass. P. 35 cm. soon expanded, buff with 

 small, brown, concentric scales ; g. narrow, pallid ; s. 5 6 cm. 

 slender, smooth, buff, peronate up to distant ring ; sp. 6 7 x 4. 



[Magnusiana, P. Henn. P. cylindrico-campan. then exp. papil- 

 lately scaly, white, centre yellowish with age, edge striate ; g. free, 

 crowded, lanceolate, white then reddish ; s. equal, white then reddish, 

 ring membranaceo-flocculose ; sp. 7 11 x 6 8. 



erminea, Fr. White. P. 4 7 cm., camp, then expanded, even, 

 glabrous, then silky towards margin; g. free; s. 5 7 cm. fibrillose- 

 sp. 1112x45. 



micropholis, B. and Br. P. 11-5 cm., soon plane, white with 

 minute radiating blackish squamules ; g. free ; s. 2 2'5 cm., white 

 ring spreading ; sp. 5 x 3. 



citriophyUa, B. and Br. P. 1-52 cm. expanded, umb. lemon 



