Leucosporae 



A. PILEUS DRY. 

 PROCE'RI. Ring movable, etc. 



L. proce'ra Scop. procems, tall. (Plate XIII, p. 34.) Tall Lepiota. 

 Lepiota, Parasol Mushroom, in some localities Pasture Mushroom (a 

 misleading title). 



HE Flesh not very thick, soft, permanently white. 

 Pileus at first ovate, finally expanded, cuticle soon 

 breaking up into brown scales, excepting upon the 

 umbo, umbo smooth, dark-brown, distinct. The 

 caps vary in shades of brown, sometimes they 

 have a faint tinge of lavender. Gills whitish, 

 crowded, narrowing toward the stem, and very re- 

 mote from it. Stem variable in length, often very 

 long, tubular, at first stuffed with light fibrils, 



quite bulbous at base, generally spotted or scaly with peculiar snake- 

 like markings below the ring, which is thick, firm and readily movable. 

 When the stem is removed from pileus it leaves a deep cavity extending 

 nearly to the cuticle. 



Pileus 3-6 in. broad. Stem 5-12 in. high, about % in. thick. 

 White spores elliptical, 14-18x9-1 I/A Peck; 12-15x8-9^ Massee; 

 14x10/11 Lloyd. 



Readily known by its extremely tall stem, shaggy cap, distinct umbo 

 and the channel between the gills and stem. Resembles no poisonous 

 species. 



Before cooking the scurf should be rubbed from the caps, which alone 

 should be eaten, as the stem is tough. Though the flesh is thin, the 

 gills are meaty and have a pleasant, nutty flavor. Fried in butter it 

 has few equals. It makes a superior catsup. 



L. raclio'des Vitt. Gr. a ragged, tattered garment. PileilS very 

 fleshy, but very soft when full grown, globose then flattened or depressed, 

 not umbonate, at first incrusted with a thick, rigid, even, very smooth, 

 bay-brown, wholly continuous cuticle, which remains entire at the disk 

 but otherwise soon becomes elegantly reticulated with cracks; these very 

 readily separate into persistent, polygonal, concentric scales, which are 

 revolute at the margin and attached to the surface with beautifully 

 radiating fibers, the surface remaining coarsely fibrillose-downy. Flesh 



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