Handbook of British fungi : with full descriptions of all the species, and illustrations of the genera / by M.C. Cooke.

Date:
1871
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Credit: Handbook of British fungi : with full descriptions of all the species, and illustrations of the genera / by M.C. Cooke. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    18. Agaricus (Lepiota) excoriatus. Schceff. Flaky Lepiota. Pileus fleshy, soft, obscurely umbonate ; cuticle thin, breaking up into scales ; stem hollow, shoi-t, cylindrical, scarcely bulbous, smooth, white ; ring moveable ; gills rather remote.—Schceff. t. 18-19. Eng.Fl.Y.p.l. Vitt. Mang. t. 36. Krombh.t.l,/. 9,t.24:, f. 24-30, Vent. t. 7. Paul. 1.135 bis. Letell. t. 609,/. A. B. In pastures. May—Sept. Esculent. Pileus 2^ in. across, expanded, often a little irregular, earnose, umbonate, flesh spongy, cuticle cracked into small areolte, silky between them, especially on the margin, pale fawn, the umbo dark, gills ventricose, free, so as to leave a broad space round the top of the stem, which is sunk into the substance of the pileus, dull white, slightly watery, unbricate when old, sometimes broader on one side of the pileus than the other, and sometimes stained with claret colored blotches. Stem l|-2 in. high, ^-j in. thick, attenuated regularly up- wards, without a decided bulb, minutely fibrillose, hollow, but stuffed with a cottony web. Ring deflexed, moveable. Smell scarcely any.—M.J.B. Spores •0005 X -00035 in.—1^. G. S. 19. Agaricus (Iiepiota) gracilentus. Krombh. Slender Pileus rather fleshy, campanulate, then expanded, obtusely umbonate ; cuticle thin, breaking up into adpressed persistent patches; stem hollow, elongated, slightly bulbous ; ring thin, free, evanescent; gills remote, broad, pallid.—Kromb. t. 24,/. 13-14. Berk. Out.p. 93. In pastures. Esculent. Eesembling A. procerus but more deKeate. Stem 5-6 in. long, 4-5 lin. thick, obsoletely scaly. Pileus at first ovate, then campanulate, and at length flat- tened, spotted with brownish scales. Spores -00043 X '0003 in. —IF. G. S. 20, Agaricus (Lepiota) mastoideus. Fr. Bossed Lepiota. Pileus rather fleshy, soft, ovate, then expanded, and acutely umbonate ; cuticle thin, breaking up into scattered papillte ; stem hollow, equally attenuated from the bulb, weak, smooth ; ring entire, moveable; gills very remote, ^al\\di.—Epicr.p. 14. Fl.Dan. t. 2144. Berk. Mag. Zool. ^ Bot. i. t. 2,f. 1. Kromb. t. 24,/ 17-18 Batt. t. 10,/. A. Letell. t. 609,/. D.E. Pileus If m. across, fin. high, very strongly umbonate, with a depression round the umbo, sub-carnose, epidermis breaking up into small umber papilliB, •wHich are larger and more scattered towards the margin; gills remote, rather narrow, yellowish ; stem 3i in. high, slender, strongly attenuated upwards, incrassated at the base, sunk into the substance of the pileus, minutely vil- Lepiota. In woods. Oct. King's Clifife. [Cincinnati.]