Lepiota. 13 



var. rufescens, B. and Br. Entirely white, becoming rufous when 

 dry. 



L. amianthina differs in adnate gills and yellow flesh of stein. 

 Differs from L. carcharia in absence of unpleasant smell. 



amianthina, Scop. P. 2 2'5 cm. soon plane and subumb. 

 granular, ochraceous, flesh yellow ; g. adnate, yellowish ; s. 3 5 cm. 

 squamulose up to ring, flesh yellow; sp. . 



var. Broadwoodiae, B. and Br. P. yellow ; g. white. 



polysticta, Berk. P. 2 3 cm. soon expanded, reddish or yellow- 

 brown broken up into minute scales ; g. free, yellowish ; s. 24 cm. 

 scaly and coloured like pileus up to ring; sp. . 



***** Cuticle of pileus dry, entire, not granular nor 

 scaly ; small, slender. 



parvannulata, Lasch. P. 1 1 - 5 cm. expanded, subumb. silky, 

 white or tinged yellow ; g. free, crowded ; s. 3 5 cm. white, fibrillose 

 up to distant small spreading ring ; sp. 4 x 2'5. 



L. erminea differs in superior, torn ring, glabrous pileus, and 

 radishy smell. 



sistrata, Fr. P. 2 4 cm. expanded, whitish, disc often tinged 

 yellow or reddish, pruinose with glistening particles ; g. nearly free, 

 crowded ; s. 3 5 cm. white, silky, ring fibrillose ; sp. . 



L. seminuda differs in mealy stem, and L. mesomorpha in 

 glabrous pileus and stem, and entire ring. 



seminuda, Lasch. P. 2 3 cm. expanded, umbpnate, whitish 

 or tinged fleshcolour, mealy then naked ; g. reaching the stem ; 

 s. 3 4cm. whitish, mealy, ring small, superior; sp. 5x3. 



L. sistrata differs in fibrillose stem and pileus covered with 

 glistening particles. 



Bucknallii, B. and Br. P. 1 2cm. convex, white with violet 

 powder; g. reaching stem; s. 3 5cm. white with violet powder; 

 sp. 7x3. 



Smell strong, like gas-tar. 



ianthina, Cke. P. 2 cm. expanded, umb. whitish, disc violet, 

 fibrillose ; g. free ; s. 2 3 cm. wavy, white, ring distant, disappearing ; 

 sp. . 



mesomorpha, Bull. P. about T5 cm. expanded, subumb. pale 

 brown or yellowish, even, glabrous ; g. free ; s. 3 4 cm. pale, 

 glabrous, ring superior; sp. - . 



[denudata, Rab. P. campan.-exp. pale sulphur, very thin, 

 floccosely scurfy then naked; g. ventricose; s. subequal, with a 

 minute very fugacious ring. 



[serena, Fr. White. P. campan. glabrous; s. slender, subbulbous, 

 ring thin, deciduous. 



martialis, Cke. and Mass. P. 23. cm. soon plane, deep rose ; 

 g. free ; s. 3 4 cm. pink up to broad ring ; sp. 8 x 4. 



