AGARICIM. 5 



** Clypeolarii. — Ring ji.red, liomogeaeous loith the universal 

 ceil lohicli clolhes the stem. 



25. A. (Lepiota) Friesii, Lasch -. pileus 6 iu.^ ferrugi- 

 nous-fuscous, fleshy, soft, torn into adpressed, tomentose 

 scales ; stem hollow with arachnoid pith, somewhat bulbous, 

 scaly ; ring superior, pendulous, equal ; gills somewhat 

 remote, linear, crowded, branched. 



On sawdust. King's Lynn. Odour heavy. 



26. A. (Lepiota) acutesquamosus, Weinm. (p. 93) ; 

 4-5 in, Eppiug Forest. 



27. A. (Lepiota) Badhami, B. and Br. (p. 93) ; 2-4 in. 



28. A. (Lepiota) emplastrum, Cke. and Mass. ; gre- 

 garious; pileus 2-3 in., silky, pallid, covered at first with a 

 smooth, membranaceous, dark-brown cuticle which splits up 

 into large adherent patches or scales, margin smooth, 

 naked ; stem equal, fibrillose, fistulose, girt by a superior 

 erect ring with a marginal brown band ; flesh turning 

 pink when cut ; gills crowded, free, remote, narrowed 

 behind, leaving a broad collar round stem. 



Among moss in a churchyard. Ealing. Taste and 

 smell none. Somewhat resembling A. Badhami., but scales 

 smooth and spores larger. 



29. A. (Lepiota) meleagris, Soiv. — S.. (Tricholoma) me- 

 leagris, Soio. (p. 101); pileus 2 in., fawn-coloured, fleshy, 

 thin, at first ovate or hemispherical, then expanded, some- 

 what campanulate, very obtuse, minutely tomentose and 

 warty, dotted with minute brown scales ; flesh turning red ; 

 stem stuffed with cottony threads, fusiform, then nearly 

 equal, of same colour, here and there tinged with yellow, 

 minutely squamulose ; ring soon ruptured, fugacious ; gills 

 remote, distant, rounded behind, somewhat connected, 

 white. 



