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with, minute, poiuted brown warts that fall away, leaving 

 areolate marks on the pileus, margin rather fringed when 

 young and sometimes furnished with fragments of the veil ; 

 gills free and attached to a collar, hut very close to the 

 stem, lanceolate, 3—4 lines hroad, much crowded, white; 

 stem up to 4 in. long and nearly 1 in. thick, elastic, base 

 rather swollen, attenuated upwards, white and silky- 

 fibrillose above, but with rusty fibrils below, and also with 

 spirally arranged scales, ring large, persistent, thin ; spores 

 elliptical, 7-8 x 4 /i. 



Agaricus (Lepiota) acutesquamosus, Weinm., Syll., i. p. 70 ; 

 Cte., Hdbk., p. 12 j Cke., lUustr., pi. 14. 



On the ground. 



Universal veil floccose, pale ferruginous, forming pointed 

 warts on the pileus which fall away readily, leaving areolate 

 scars on the fundamental floccose surface, as in Lycoperdon 

 gemmatum. (Pries.) 



Distinguished from L. Friesii by the rigid, deciduous 

 warts of the pileus, and in the broad giUs being very close 

 to the stem, 



Lepiota Friesii. Lasch. 



Pileus 3-5 in. across, flesh thick, white, not changing 

 colour to any appreciable extent; convex then expanded, 

 sometimes slightly umbonate, soft, yellowish-brown, becoming 

 torn into adpressed, tomentose scales ; gills free, rather 

 distant from the stem, closely crowded, narrow, branched, 

 •whitish ; stem 4r-5 in. long, 4-6 lines thick at the apex, base 

 somewhat bulbous, coloured like the pileus, scaly, hollow, 

 with a web-like pith ; ring superior, fixed, pendulous ; spores 

 elliptical or pip-shaped, 8—9 X 5 /x. 



Agaricus Friesii, Lasch, Linnea, vol. iii. no. 9 ; Cke., 

 Hdbk., p. 361 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 941. 



In gardens, &c. 



Odour strong. DiEFers from L. procera in the fixed ring, 

 and from L. acutesquamosa, to w^hich it is most nearly allied, 

 in the branched gills and adpressed scales of the pileus. 



Lepiota Badhami. Berk. 

 Pileus 2-4 in. across, flesh thick, and like that of the 

 stem becoming safiton-red when cut ; campanulate then ex- 

 panded, obtuse, or depressed and more or less umbonate. 



