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involute margin spreading, adfixed by cottony ilocci ; stem 

 obsolete ; gills ventricose, clay-colour, margin whitish. 

 On decaying wood. Penzance. 



Series 4. Peatell^. — Spores -jjuiylisJi^ imrijlish-brown, or 



dark i^wrplish. 



Subgenus 33. Chitonia. 



Universal veil distinct from pileus ; hymenopliore distinct 



from the stem ; gills free. 



Chitonia corresponds with Amanita, Volvaria and Acetabularia, 



spores purphsh, not wlaite, rosy or brown. 



756. A. (Chitonia) rubriceps, Cke. and Mass. ; pileus 

 1 in., rather fleshy, campanulate, then expanded, umbonate, 

 smooth, even, testaceous ; margin faintly striate ; stem 

 erect, iistulose, paler than the pileus, rooting ; volva sheath- 

 ing, accate, whitish, torn at margin ; gills free, lanceolate, 

 rather crowded, purplish-brown ; ring obsolete. 



On soil in an Aroid house. Kew. 



Subgenus 34. Psalliota (p. 1G5). 



Stem ringed, separate from hymenophore ; gills free. 



Psalliota corresponds with Lepiota, Annularia and Togaria, spores 



purplish-brown, not white, rosy or brown. 



* Edules. — Large, fleshy. 



757. A. (Psalliota) augustus, Fr. ; pileus 4-5 in., glo- 

 bose, hemispherical, then expanded, obtuse, disc even, cir- 

 cumference fibrilloso-squamose ; stem solid, thick, smooth, 

 attenuated upwards, white, tinged with red if bruised ; ring 

 superior, broad, externally cracked into angular scales ; gills 

 crowded, narrow, remote, leaving a collar round stem, pallid, 

 then brown. 



In woods. 



758. A. (Psalliota) Elvensis, B, and Br. ; csespitose ; 

 pileus 6 in., somewhat globose, then hemispherical, fibril- 



