t. 18, is a pure-whito variety, with an expanded volva, and is
by no means confined to mountain pastures.
13. A. (Amanita) CecUiee, Berk, and B r .; pileus at first
ovate, then campanulate, clothed with scattered subpersistent
warts; margin grooved; stem stuffed, silky ahove, squamulose
below; volva soon breaking up. (Plate 3, fig. 5.)
In woods. Mouse-grey. Distinguislied by its less perfect
volva and stuffed stem, which does not simply contain a few
cottony fibres, as that of A. vaginatus.
Suhgenus 2 . L e p i o t a . — Veil universal, concrete with the cuticle
of the pileus. Hymenophorum distinct from the stem.
* Cuticle dry.
a. Bing moveable.
13. A. (Lepiota) procerus, Scop.; pileus fleshy, at first
ovate, then expanded and umbonate; cuticle thick, torn up
into scales; stem tall, hollow, bulbous, variegated with close-
pressed scales; ring moveable ; gills very remote.— Fi«. t. 24.
Huss. i. t. 88.
Pastures. Often several inches across. Esculent. Sold
in Covent Garden market.
14. A. (Lepiota) raehod.es, V itt.; pileus fleshy, at first
globose, then expanded and depressed; cuticle thin, broken
up into persistent scales; stem hollow, not spotted; bulb at
first abrupt, ring moveable ; gills remote. (Plate 3, fig. 6 .)—
Huss. ii. t. 38.
In shady pastures. Elesh mostly red when bruised; not so
good for food as the last, if really wholesome. Intermediate
forms occur, which it is difficult to refer to either species.
15. A. (Lepiota) exeoriatus, Schaff.; pileus fleshy, obscurely
umbonate; cuticle thin, breaking np into patches;
stem short, hollow, cylindrical, even, nearly white, slightly
bulbous; ring moveable; gills rather remote.—Sc/i«/, t. 18,
19.
In pastures. Ear smaller than the two foregoing.
16. A. (Lepiota) graoUentus, Kromb.; pileus somewhat
fleshy, obtusely umbonate; cuticle thin, breaking up into
adprcssed persistent patches; stem hollow, elongated, slightly
bulbous; ring thin, free, evanescent; gills remote, at length
pallid.—AromS. /. 2 4 ./. 13, 14.
In pastures, Laxton, Northamptonshire. Resembling A.
procerus, hut more delicate.
17. A. (Lepiota) mastoideus, Fr.; pilens somewhat fleshy,
strongly and acutely umbonate; cuticle thin, breaking up
into scattered papillie ; stem hollow, equally attenuated from
the bulb, weak; ring evanescent, moveable; gills very remote,
pallid.—Berk, in Mag. of Zool. and Bot. i. t. 3. /. 1.
In woods. King’s Cliffe. In my phmt the stem is minutely
villoso-squamose. Fries describes it as smooth and even.
b. Bing fixed.
18. A. (Lepiota) aeutesqnamosns, Weinm.; pileus obtuse,
fleshy, rough with erect acute squarrosc scales; stem below
the ring rough like the pileus, or silky, bulbous, pruinose
ahove; gills lanceolate, approximate.—Huss. u. t. 5; Kromb.
t. 1. /. 18, 30. A. Mariifi, Eng. Ft. A. asper, Abbildungen
der Schw.
On soil in gardens. Generally of a tawny tin t; very beautiful.
19. A. (Lepiota) Badhami, Berk, and B r .; pileus at first
campanulate, obtuse, then expanded or depressed and umbonate
hispid, with minute velvety ermine-like scales; stem
bulbous, white, silky, stuffed with cottony threads; ring firm,
slightly moveable; gills remote, ventricose; whole plant,
when wounded, of a saffron-red.