Agaricus (Psalliota) campigenus, Berk.; minor, pileo campanulato subcarnoso squamuloso, stipite gracili, annulo latiusculo superiore deorsum incrassato, lamellis angustis postice attenuatis subadnatis. HAB . On the ground, amongst grass, Colenso. Pileus about 1 inch high, campanulate, very obtuse, silky, with a few scattered scales, assuming a reddish hue when dry, rather fleshy. Stem 1.5 inch high, about 2 lines thick, incrassated at the base, slightly furfuraceous, with a broadish ring near the top. Gills rather narrow, attenuated behind, adnexed or slightly adnate. Spores pale red-brown, obliquely obovate. This has much the habit of a Lepiota, but the gills are adnexed and the spores pale, but decidedly coloured. It has not, I believe, been ascertained whether the spores of Leucospori ever change their colour when dry. In such species as A. cretaceus they are never dark; It is however certain that in A. fumoso-purpureus, Lasch., they are sometimes colourless, but possibly from being effete; and I have lately received from Dr Badham A. cretaceus with spores decidedly white, though the gills are as pink as in any dark-spored specimens.

[Notes from Kew Type specimen, PRJ 2010] Kew images.

Pileus campanulate, rather fleshy, very obtuse, silky, with a few scattered scales, assuming a reddish hue when dry, about 2.5 cm. high; gills rather narrow, narrowed behind, adnexed or slightly adnate ; spores pale red-brown, obliquely obovate; stem 4 cm. high, about 4 mm. thick, incrassated at the base, slightly furfuraceous, with a broadish ring near the top.

New Zealand.

On the ground, among grass.