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(i in.) thick, stout, the somewhat bulbous base solid, otherwise Lepiota. 

 hollow, stuffed with a lax spider-web pith, elastic, attenuated up- 

 wards, adpressedly fibrilloso-silky and white, but becoming fer- 

 ruginous below with the fibrils, adorned with areolated scales 

 arranged spirally from the remains of the universal veil. Ring 

 large, white, at length becoming yellow, at first silky, continuous 

 with the margin of the pileus, externally sprinkled, chiefly towards 

 the margin, with vernicose patches of the exterior veil ; then pen- 

 dulous from the apex of the stem, membranaceous but very soft 

 and very large, even, remaining adfixed, adhering by the silky 

 down of the stem. Gills quite free from the stem, united by a 

 collar encircling the stem, but very approximate, lanceolate, as 

 much as 8 mm. (4 lin.) broad when full grown, very crowded, 

 shining white. 



The margin of the pileus when young is fimbriate, and occasionally appen- 

 diculate with the torn ring. The stem is thicker in proportion as it is shorter. 

 The flesh is firmer than that of its allies. A most distinguished species ; soli- 

 tary or 2-3 individuals connate at the base. The open patches, left on the 

 floccose ground of the pileus are almost after the type of Lycoperdon gemma- 

 turn. Somewhat inodorous. The pileus varies furfuraceous (Krombh. t. 29. 

 /. 18-21.) 



On soil in gardens and hotbeds. Uncommon. Sept.-Oct. 



Spores 8-10x2-3 mk. B.; 3x6 mk. W. G.S. Name asutus, sharp, 

 squama, a scale. Weinm. Syll. i. p. 70. Fr. Monogr. i. p. 22. Hym. Eur. p. 

 31. Berk. Out. p. 93. C. Hbk. n. 21. Illust. PL 14. S. Mycol. Scot. n. 17. 

 Hussey ii. /. 5. A. Mariae Klotsch Linn. vii. t. 8. Berk. Eng. Fl. \. p. 4. 



24. A. Badhami B. & Br. Pileus 5-10 cent. (2-4 in.) broad, at 

 first campanulate, obtuse, at length expanded, often depressed and 

 umbonate, hispid, with minute, velvety, fuliginous scales, but 

 sometimes entirely fuliginous without any distinct scales. Stem 

 5-7.5 cent. (2-3 in.) high, 6-12 mm. (%-% in.) inch or more thick, 

 attenuated above, bulbous below, white, silky or floccoso-scaly, 

 stuffed with cottony threads. Ring firm, erect and deflexed, more 

 or less movable beneath, frequently clothed with dingy granules. 

 Gills truly remote, ventricose, rather broad. 



The whole plant when wounded becomes saffron-blood-red. Flesh tolerably 

 compact. Resembling some forms of A. clypeolarius, but more robust. In 

 some specimens the surface is decidedly scaly, in others simply velvety. The 

 margin often projects beyond the gills, and is delicately silky and fimbriated. 

 The stem, though bulbous, is by no means marginate. Smell rather disagreeable. 



Under yew-trees. Apethorpe, &c. Sept. 



Spores elliptic, 8 mk. B. & Br.; 6 x 3 mk. W.G.S. Name after C. D. 

 Badham, M.D. B. 6 s Br. n. 664. Berk. Out. p. 93. C. Hbk. n. 23. 

 Illust. PL 25. Saund. & Sm. t. 35.7. 2. Fr. Hym. Eur. p. 31. 



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