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OUTLINES OK BRITISH FUNGOLOGY.

t. 18, is a pure-white variety, with an expanded volva, and isby no means confined to mountain pastures.

12. A. (Amanita) Cecilise, Berk, and Br. ; pileus at firstovate, then campanulate, clothed with scattered subpersistentwarts; margin grooved; stem stuffed, silky above, squamulosebelow; volva soon breaking up. (Plate 3, fig. 5.)

In woods. Mouse-grey. Distinguished by its less perfectvolva and stuffed stem, which does not simply contain a fewcottony fibres, as that of A. vaginatus.

Subgenus 2. Lepiota. —Veil universal, concrete with the cuticleof the pileus. Hymenophorum distinct from the stem.

* Cuticle dry.a. Ring moveable.

13. A. (Lepiota) procerus, Scop.; pileus fleshy, at firstovate, then expanded and umbonate; cuticle thick, torn upinto scales; stem tall, hollow, bulbous, variegated with close-pressed scales; ring moveable; gills very remote.— Vitt. t. 24.Huss. i. t. 88.

Pastures. Often several inches across. Esculent. Soldin Covent Garden market.

14. A. (Lepiota) raehodes, Vitt.; pileus fleshy, at firstglobose, then expanded and depressed; cuticle thin, brokenup into persistent scales; stem hollow, not spotted; bulb atfirst abrupt, ring moveable ; gills remote. (Plate 3, fig. 6.)—Ifuss. ii. t. 38.

In shady pastures. Flesh mostly red when bruised; not sogood for food as the last, if really wholesome. Intermediateforms occur, which it is difficult to refer to either species.

15. A. (Lepiota) excoriatus, Schccff.; pileus fleshy, ob-scurely umbonate; cuticle thin, breaking up into patches;stein short, hollow, cylindrical, even, nearly white, slightly