LEPIOTA. 239 



Agaricus (Lepiota) emplastrum, Cke. & Mass., Grevillea, 

 vol. xviii. p. 51; Cke., Hdbk., p. 361; Cke., Ulustr., pi. 1164. 



Among grass under trees. 



Allied to Lepiota Badhami, but di-stinguished by the 

 glabrous cuticle of the pileus and the much larger spores. 



Lepiota meleagris. Sow. 



Pileus §-1^ in. across, flesh thin, becoming red; convex 

 then expanded and almost or quite plane, cuticle broken up 

 into minute black scales on a pale ground, disc darker; 

 gills nearly or quite free, li-2 liues broad, -svhitish ; stem 

 1^—3 in. long, swollen at the base or higher up, blackish 

 below, pale with black squamules upwards, stuffed; ring 

 obsolete ; spores elliptical, 6-7 X 4 /-t- 



Agaricus meleagris, Sowerby, Pung., t. 171 ; Cke., Hdbk., 

 p. 13 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 26. 



In hot-beds, greenhouses, &c. 



It has a solid stem, and a curious, somewhat reticulated 

 root, in drying it becomes of a blush-red all over, except the 

 lower part, which retains the darker hue. (Sowerby.) 



This species came up abundantly in a hot-house at Coed 

 Coch, Denbighshire, amongst spent tan, and is certainly a 

 Lepiota closely allied to Lep. clypeolarius. Two forms occur 

 which run into each other, the less typical of which has a 

 campanulate, obtuse pileus, and is of a darker tint whea dty. 

 Pileus at first ovate or hemispherical, very obtuse, fawn- 

 coloured, minutely tomentose and warty, then expanded, 

 subcampanulate, about 2 in. across, dotted with minute 

 brown scales ; stem at first fusiform, then nearly equal, of 

 the same colour, here and there tinged with 3'6llow, most 

 minutely squamulose, stuffed with cottony threads; ring 

 soon ruptured, ver3'^ fugacious ; gills remote, distant rounded 

 behind, sometimes connected, white. The whole plant 

 changes in drying, or when cut, to a beautiful red. In the 

 variety the gills are sometimes lemon-coloured. (B. & Br.) 



Lepiota biomata. B. and Br. 

 Pileus 1-2 iu. across, flesh thick at the disc, very thin 

 elsewhere, with a faint yellow tinge; convex or broadly 

 campanulate, silky, white, sprinkled with minute dark red 

 scales that are most nionerous at the disc ; gills free, ventri- 

 cose, 2 lilies broad, rather crowded, white then with a pale 



