20 AGARICACEyE Lepiota 



or nearly so, except 46, 47, and 50. Spores normally white, some- 

 times yellowish, greenish or green. (Fig. 12.) 



The species grow mostly in rich grassy places, more often in fields 

 than woods ; some occur in stoves and greenhouses. Nearly all are 

 autumnal. Some are edible. Species 21 59 



A. Epidermis dry. 



a. ProcercB. Scales of pileus brown or brownish on a white 



ground. Stem bulbous. Annnhis more or less movable. 

 Gills remote. Edible. The species are nearly allied ; inter- 

 mediate forms occur between all. 21 25 



b. Clypeolaria. Pileus and usually the stem scaly or covered 



with granules. Annulus fixed. Gills free. Odour, except 

 29, strong, disagreeable, pungent, sometimes weak. 26 37 



c. Annulosce. Annulus superior, fixed, somewhat persistent; 



fugacious in 41 and 42. 38 43 



d. Granulosce. Pileus and lower part of stem covered with 



granules. Annulus inferior. Gills approaching stem, 

 adnate in 47. 44 48 



e. Mesomorpha. Pileus dry, entire, not torn, not usually 



granular, small, slender. 48a 54 



B. Pileus smooth, viscid. 



/. Viscida. 5559 



a. Procercs. 



21. L. proeera Quel. (proarus, tall) a b c. 



P. umbonate, finely scaly. St. minutely scaly. G. subremote. 



Flesh unchanging white. 

 Solitary or in troops. Edible. Taste and odour pleasant, delicate. Pastures, 



parks, gardens, heaths, among bracken, etc. ; common. July-Oct. 



8 X lof x J in. 



22. L. rachodes Quel. (from the ragged pileus ; Gr. rakos, a ragged 



garment) a b c. 

 P. subglobose, coarsely scaly. G. subremote, sometimes reddening 



when bruised. Flesh changing to saffron-reddish when broken. 

 Gregarious or caespitose. Edible. Taste and odour pleasant, strong, varying 



to rank. Woods and hedges, fir-plantations, greenhouses ; common. 



July-Dec. 5^ x 6 X I in. The form ptiellaris is smaller and shining 



white. Bears the same relation to 21 as the horse-mushroom does to the 



pasture-mushroom. There is a white variety. 



22a. L. prominens Sacc. (from the prominent umbo) a b. 



P. sphaerico-expanded, strongly and subacutely umbonate; 



sc. imbricate on um. ; brownish or dull pale ochreous. 



St. abruptly bulbous at the base. 

 Edible. Fields. Oct. 8| x 4| X in. 



22b. L. permixta Barla (from its mixed characters) a. 



P. campanulato-convex, slightly subumbonate, then expanded, 

 smooth then fibrillose ; sc. opaque, somewhat pale brown on a 

 brownish-ivory ground ; marg. sublacerate, white. St. hollow, 



