!J
AGARICINI.
A g a z icu s (L epio ta ) v it ta d in i. MoreUi. “ Great white
Lepiota. ”
Pileus fleshy, obtuse, rough with strong wart-like scales ; stem
solid, cylindrical, stout, concentrically squarrose ; ring large ;
gills free, ventricose, thxak.—Moret. Bot. Ital. t. 1. Vitt Am. t 1
Krombh. t. 276,/. 1-14. Huss. i. t. 85.
In pastures. Bare. Norfolk, Northamptonshire, Hunts, &c,
A large species of a pure white; extremely beautiful. Considered poisonous.
2 8 . A g a z icu s (L ep io ta ) h o lo s e z ic eu s . Fr. “ Silky Lepiota.”
Pileus fleshy, obtuse, soft, silky fibrillose, becoming even; stem
solid, bulbous, sericeo-fibrillose, ring superior, persistent, broad,
reflexed; gills free, ventricose, white, growing pallid.—Dr. Epicr.
p. 16. Smith Seem. Journ. 1868.
In moist woods. Staplehurst, Kent. Esculent.
Large, inodorous. Pileus fleshy, soft, smooth, convex, then expanded, disc
never umbonate, of a floccose silky texture, fragile, entirely uniform in colour
3 in or more broad, gills free, broad, ventricose, crowded, pallid; stem solid
AjA in. liigh, i m. or more thick, bulbous at the base, soft, fragile silkv
Z d e l :OoT3"xTooTin.™tftT®°“ ’
2 9 . A g a z icu s (L ep io ta ) n a u c in u s . M-. “ Large spored
Lepiota.”
Pileus fleshy, soft, cuticle thin, entire, or breaking up into granules,
somewhat umbonate and smooth in the centre ; stem almost
hollow, thickened at the base, attenuated upwards, fibrillose; ring
large,at length evanescent; gills approximate, whitish.— Fr Epicr
p . 16. Krombh. t. 24, f . 20-23. Paul. 1. 150,/. 1-2. Batt. t. 1-9
Vent. t. 48, f . 5-6.
In fields.
tan color, the gills at length assuming a dirty pink hue The lars’e
es are very characteristic. Easily confounded with A. cretaemsT
Son), “ Onion stemmed
On tan and eaves in hot-houses.
White or yellow, stem variable- Gregarious or tufted. Pileus 1-3 in. broad,
ovate conical when young, then campanulate, and finally nearly or quite plane,
darkest in the centre, and more or less covered with small scattered fibrous
scales, flesh thin, margin very thin, and semitransparent, plicate, substance
tough. Gills numerous, thin, broad, rounded near the stem, and separated
from it by a circular space, but the stem is not penetrating. Stem 3-6 in.
high, straight or crooked, firm, even, smooth, narrow at the top, ventricose,
then narrower at the bottom, somewhat pruinose, the centre at first stuffed,
then hollow Ring perfect, erect, persistent. In decay the pileus becomes
brownish.—Grev. Spores'OOOS X "00018in.— W.G.S.
Delicate _
white spores
3 0 . A g a z icu s (L ep io ta ) c epoe stip e s.
Lepiota. ”
Pileus sub-membranaceous, ovate, then expanded, mealy and
scaly, disc fleshy and broadly umbonate; margin plicate ; stem
hollow, floccose, thickest in the middle, or at the base; ring evanescent
; gills at length remote.—5'ow. t. 2. Grev. t. 333. Sturm t
1 . F l .D a n .t.n 9 8 . Eng. F l . y . p . l . Gard. Chron.,l860,p.41 '
Sect 4. Mesomorphi—intermediate forms.
Batsoh. “ Granular
31. A g a z icu s (L epio ta ) g za n u lo su s.
Lepiota.”
Pileus fleshy, convex, then expanded, soft, mealy with innate
granules, stem stuffed, thenhollow, nearlyequal, floccoso-squamose
below the ring ; gills crowded, reaching the stem, or free, white.
—F r .E p ic r .p .n . Eng. FI. y .p . lO. Sow. 1.19. Bull. t. 362, 530,
f . 3 , t . 104. Huss. i.t. 45. Batsch. f . 24-91. F l.B a n .t.1611,f . l ,
1 .1795. Bolt. t. 5 1 ,/. 2.
In woods and on heaths. [United States.]
White, pink, vermilion, yellow, &o. Always easily distinguished by its mealy
granular aspect Subgregarious. Pileus J-1 in. broad, usually dull reddish
yellow. Fleshy in the ceutre, at first convex, or obtusely umbonate, at length
often plane or depressed, somewhat wrinkled, covered with furfuraeeous
scales^ Gills white, or yellowish white, fixed to the stem, ventriooSe and
sometimes nearly free. Stem 1-3 in. high, 1-4 lines thick, slightly incrassated
at the base, solid when young, becoming hollow with age, stuffed at the base,
sometimes slightly compressed, with a subfugacious flocculose ring about the
middle, above which it is slightly fibrillose, beneath it scaly like the pileus.—
M. J. B. Spores "00012 X "00015 in.— W. G. S.
It is the variety Amianfhinus, which is found in this country.
3 2 . A g a z icu s (L epio ta ) p o ly s t ic tu s .
Lepiota.”
Berli. “ Little brown
Inodorous, fleshy; cuticle continuous, or broken into scales ;
stem attenuated downwards, stuffed with cottony threads, scaly
below the fugacious ring, silky above ; gills crowded, rounded before
and behind, free, white, with a pale-yellow tinge.—Eng. FI.
y .p .9 . Berk. Out.p. 95.
Amongst short grass by roadsides.
Pileus 14 in. across, not a t all campanulate, expanded, and broadly, obtusely
umbonate, flesh thick in the centre, firm and tough, the cuticle broken into
minute fiat scales of a rich red brown. Gills numerous, unequal, rounded before
and behind, broad, ventricose, quite free, the margin serrulate, white,
with a slight yellowish tinge. Stem 1 in. high, | in. thick in the middle.