238 FUNGUS-FLOKA. 



sooty brown, velvety or broken up into scales ; gills free, ' 

 distant, ventricose, 2-3 lines broad, white at first; stem 

 2-4 in. long, |-| in. thick, base bulbous, slightly attenuated 

 upwards, whitish, silky or floccose, stufied then hollow ; 

 ring firm, slightly loose ; spores elliptical, 5 x 3 /x. 



Agaricus (^Lepiota) Badhami, Berk., Outl., p. 93 ; Cke., 

 Hdbk., p. 13 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 25. 



Under yew trees, &c. 



L. emplastrum agrees with the present in becoming red 

 when wounded, but differs in the thick, smooth cuticle 

 becoming broken into large patches as the pileus expands. 



Pileiis 2-4 in. across, at first campanulate obtuse, at length ' 

 expanded, often depressed and umbonate, hispid, with minute, 

 velvety, fuliginous scales, but sometimes entirely fuliginous 

 without any distinct scales. Stem 2-3 in. high, \—\ in. or 

 more thick, attenuated above, bulbous below, white, silky or 

 floccoso-squamose, stuffed with cottony threads ; ring firm, . 

 erect and deflexed, more or less movable beneath, frequently 

 clothed with dingy granules ; gills truly remote, ventricose, 

 rather broad; spores elliptic, "0003 in. long, flesh tolerably' 

 compact. The whole plant when wounded assumes a rich 

 red tint. A splendid Agaric, resembling some forms of 

 A. dypeolarius, but more robust. In some specimens the , 

 surface is decidedly scaly, in others simply velvety. The , 

 margin often projects beyond the gills and is delicately 

 silky and fimbriated. The stem, though bulbous, is by no 

 means marginate. Smell rather disagreeable. (B. & Br.) 



Lepiota emplastra. Cke. & Mass. 

 Pileus 2-3 in. across, flesh thick, firm, white, but like that 

 of the stem becoming pink or reddish when cut; convex, 

 then expanded, when young covered with a thin, smooth, 

 dark brown cuticle that beicomes broken up into large, 

 , rregular, persistent patches as the pileus expands, and is 

 then entirely absent from the even margin, pallid and silky . 

 below the cuticle; gills free, remote fiom the stem, crowded, 

 l|-2 lines broad, narrowed behind, whitish ; stem about 3 in. 

 long,, J in. thick slightly thickened at the base, otherwise 

 equal, more or less striate, pallid, hollow ; ring rather distant, 

 erect, externally brown at the margin ; spores elliptical or 

 pip-shaped, obliquely apiculate, 18-2Q x 10-12 /a. 



