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* A. rachodes puellaris Fr. A pretty form, wholly constant, Lepiota. 

 departing- from the typical form in being half the size, shining 

 white, with the pileus floccoso-squamose. 



In woods, &c., not uncommon. Fr. Monogr. ii. p. 285. Hym. Eur. p. 29. 

 B. & Br. n. 1632. 



20. A. excoriatus Schaeff. Pileus 7.5 cent. (3 in.) broad, some- 

 times of one colour whitish, sometimes brown at the disc, fleshy, 

 soft, globose then expanded, at length becoming plane, gibbous 

 rather than umbonate at the middle, cuticle very thin, sometimes 

 even, persistent, and slightly silky, sometimes broken up into min- 

 ute squamules, more or less peeled towards the margin ; flesh soft, 

 white, unchangeable. Stem about 7.5 cent. (3 in.) long, 8-10 mm. 

 (4-5 lin.) thick, hollow, with spider-web threads within, wholly 

 equal or only obsoletely bulbous (the bulb, when present, buried 

 in the soil), even, rather smooth, quite unspotted, white. Ring 

 movable. Gills free, but not very remote from the stem, soft, 

 white. 



Constantly smaller than A. procerus and A. rachodes, lower in stature, with 

 the thin cuticle not so much torn. The stem is less cartilaginous than that of 

 A. procerus, but remarkably distinct from the pileus. The ring is smaller, 

 tougher, less movable, and here and there vanishing. 



In woods, &c. Uncommon. May-Oct. 



Edible ; said to be better than its allies. According to Berkeley the taste is 

 like that of Marasmius oreades. Spores sphaeroid-ellipsoid, 14-16x9-11 mk. 

 K.; 14x9 mk. IV. G.S. Name ex, and corium, skin. From the pileus 

 being peeled towards the margin. Schccff. t. 18, 19. Fr. Monogr. \. p. 21. Hym. 

 Eur. p. 30. Sverig. dtl. Sv. t. 18. Berk. Out. p. 92. C. Hbk. n. 18. Illust. 

 PI. 23. S. Mycol. Scot. n. 16. Vivian t. 49. Vittad. Fung. mang. t. 35. 

 Ventur. t. 7. Letell. t. 610. Krombh. t. 24. /. 24-30. 



21. A. gracilentus Krombh. Pileus slightly fleshy, at the first 

 ovate, then campanulate, and at length flattened, slightly umbo- 

 nate or rather gibbous, with a thin, closely adnate, fuscous cuticle, 

 which breaks up into broad, adpressed, persistent scales, so that 

 the whitish pileus &p\>ta.rs fuscous-spotted; flesh white, unchange- 

 able. Stem 12.5-15 (5-6 in.) long, 8-10 mm. (4-5 lin.) thick, hol- 

 low, fibrillose with spider-web threads within, slightly bulbous, 

 otherwise equal, obsoletely scaly, whitish. Ring very laxly woven, 

 floccose, not only easily free, but also separating and vanishing, 

 Gills remote, very broad, very crowded, whitish, often dingy at 

 the edge, sometimes greenish. 



Stature about that of A. procerus, but the stem is more slender, and the 

 pileus smaller and thinner. The chief difference lies in the thin fugacious ring. 



In pastures. Rare. 



