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.

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    24. Agaricus (Iiepiota) meleagris. Sow. Sowerby's Lepiota. Pileus fleshy, thin, convex, then plane ; cuticle broken up into black scales ; flesh turning red; stem sohd, squamulose, thickened downwai'ds, and black ; root reticulated ; gills nearly free.—Sow. 1.171. Berk. Outl.p. 101, no. 50 (sub. Tricholoma) B. ^ Br. Ann. N.H. 1865. JSng.Fl.Y.p. 9. On hot-beds. May—Oct, 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.—Som. Stem about 3 in. long, 3 in. thick, nearly equal, pileus I5 in. broad. Stem stouter in proportion than in A. clypeolarius. 25. Agaricus (laepiota) clypeolaxius. B^^ll. Fragrant Lepiota. Pileus fleshy, soft, umbonate, at first with an even crust, at length broken into floccose adpressed scales ; stem fistulose, thin, almost equal; ring evanescent, floccoso-squamose; gills free, ap- proxunate.—5mZZ. i. 405. 506,/.2, Tratt.Aust.t.'2%. Paul.t.l3&. Eng. Fl. v. p. 8. Fr. Icon. 1.14,/. 2. Berk. Out.p. 94. Vent. t. 44, /. 3-4. In woods and hot-houses. [United States.] Sweet scented. Variable in colour, white, yellow, pink, rufous, brown, &c. Pileus \\ in. broad, sub-campanulate, strongly umbonate, whitish, with red- dish scales ; gills numerous, quite free, nearly reaching the stem, ventricose; stem 2-3^ in. high, 2 lines thick, hollow, but stuffed with cottony tibres, whit- ish, pale brownish, or rufescent, the whole clothed with fibrillose scales. Ring sometimes remaining on the stem, but generally attached to the margin of the pileus, or evanescent. Inodorous and insipid.—M. J. B. 26. Agaricus (Lepiota) cristatus. Fr. Stinking Lepiota. Pileus slightly fleshy, rather obtuse, cuticle at first continuous, naked, then broken into sub-granulose scales. Stem fistulose, slender, even, equal; ring entire, evanescent; gUls free, at length remote.—i^r.^^tcr.^. 15. Batsch.f.205. Pricef.106. Grev t 176. Krombh. t. 25, f. 26-30. Berk. Outl.pl. 3/. 7. Eng. Fl. v. p. 9. Huss. i. t. 48. Berk. Exs. no. 1. In fields, lawns, &c. Common. [United States.] Pretty, and remarkable for its strong scent. Solitary or subgregarious. rileus ^1^ m. broad, expanded, umbonate, white, the cuticle broken into rntescent scales, which are either flat or reflexed, less frequent on the margin %^ attached in fragments to the margin, sometimes moveable on the stem, flesh firni, thin; gills remote, numerous, slightly ventricose, the ^itvP^ iieven often imbricated, tinged slightly with yeUow. Stem 1-2 in. ^nf 4ifi: f * composed of fibres, smooth or fibrillose, hollow ^oL^fT. Z cottony tibrcs, flesh towards the base reddish, with a rooting Sapleasanr-S?/ i!'- ^^^^ ^^^ ^^'^^