AGAKICINI. 11 



smooth ; stem fistulose, equal, dry, ttoccoso-scaly and tomen- 

 tose ; gills free, crowded, thin, ventricose, shining white. 



About old stumps. Powerscourt. Taste like Po/i/porus 

 squamosus. 



56. A. (Lepiota) illinitus, Fr. ; pileus H-3 in., white, 

 with fuscous umbo, slightly fleshy, smooth, soft, fragile, 

 slightly striate at margin ; stem stuffed, then hollow, equal, 

 cylindrical, fragile, glutinous ; gills free, at length remote, 

 crowded, somewhat connected by veins, shining white. 



In woods. Penzance. 



57. A. (Lepiota) Georginae. Sin.; pileus ^-1 in., white, 

 slightly fleshy, fragile, covered with a minute, dense, viscid 

 pruinosity, which, as well as the white flesh, instantly 

 changes to crimson when touched ; margin at length 

 striate ; stem slightly attenuated upwards, viscid-pruinose, 

 changing to crimson Avhen touched ; ring evanescent ; gills 

 free, thin, somewhat ventricose, white, edge becoming 

 crimson when touched. 



On mosses in a cool fernery. Chelsea. 



Subgenus 4. Schulzeria. — Hpiienopliorum distinct from the 

 stem, without volva or rin<i-. Equal to Lepiota without 

 a ring. 

 No British representatives. 



Subgenus 5. Hiatula. — Pileus very thm, without distinct pellicle, 

 formed from the union of the back of the gills, splitting and 

 veliform when expanded, as in very thin species of Coprmus, 

 but not deliquescent. 



58. A. (Hiatula) Wynnise, B. and Br. ; pileus 1^ in., 

 shining white, tender, striate, pulverulent, darker in the 

 centre ; stem slender, striate ; gills rather broad, rough. 



In a stove. Kew. 



Stem 1 in. high, I line thick. One specimen became 

 darker in drying, and had a longer and thicker stem. 



