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coloured disc slightly gibbous, dry, smooth, becoming even, 

 silky-fibrillose towards the margin ; flesh soft, white ; stem 

 fistulose, equal, fragile, dry, somewhat fibrillose ; ring mem- 

 branous, at length torn and fugacious; gills free, reaching 

 the stem, obtuse at both ends, somewhat crowded, broad, 

 shining white ; gregarious. 



Grassy places in woods, etc. Coed Coch, etc. Inodorous, 

 with taste of radish. 



*** Annulosi. — Ring supe,rior, fixed, somexoliat persistent^ 

 v.niversal veil adnate to the jnletts. 



36. A. (Lepiota) Vittadini. Fr. (p. 94) ; 5 in. 



37. A. (Lepiota) holosericeus, Fr.; pileus 3 in., whitish 

 or clay-white, fleshy, soft, rather plane, floccoso-silky, 

 somewhat fibrillose, becoming even, disc of the same colour, 

 margin involute when young ; flesh soft, white ; stem solid, 

 bulbous, soft, fragile, silky-fibrillose, whitish ; ring superior, 

 membranaceous, large, soft, pendulous with margin ascend- 

 ing ; gills free, broad, ventricose, becoming whitish. 



In moist woods and gardens, Kew, Staplehurst. In- 

 odorous ; esculent. 



38. A. (Lepiota) naucinus, Fr. (p. 94) ; 1-H in. 



39. A, (Lepiota) cepsestipes, Sow. (p. 95); 1 in. 



40. A. (Lepiota) licmophorus, B. and Br. ; pileus 

 1 in., lemon-yellow, membranaceous, plane, depressed, 

 deeply sulcate, margin crenate ; stem fistulose, slender, 

 attenuated upwards, lemon-yellow, tomentose at the base ; 

 ring median ; gills remote, slightly arched, distant, interstices 

 veined, shining white. 



In hothouses. 



