var. _puellaris_, Fr. Small, entirely white, stem flocculose. [=Olivieri=, Barla. P. convex, then exp. or depr., whitish tinged fawn at disc, covered with fawn adpr. fibrillose scales; g. broad, free yellowish-white; s. whitish, base swollen, ring cottony, caducous; flesh white, brick-red then brownish when broken. Allied to _L. rachodes_ with which it agrees in size. =prominens=, Viv. P. 4-6 cm., umbo very strong, ochraceous, scaly; g. white; s. 9-15 cm. slender, base swollen, ring free; sp. 10 x 8. =permixta=, Barla. P. convex, more or less umb. campan. then exp. silky, greyish fawn, centre darker, with adpr. brown scales and becoming deprived of cuticle at edge; g. pale wax or tinged red; s. cylindr. dingy white cracked into brown adpr. scales, base swollen, ring brownish; flesh reddish when broken. Resembles _L. procera_ in size and marking of s.; _L. rachodes_ in flesh becoming red; and _L. excoriata_ in having border deprived of cuticle. [=molybdites=, Mey. P. globose then campan. broken into crustaceous scales up to middle; g. remote, white then tinged blue; s. hollow, blackish-brown, bulbous, ring equal. An introduced species. =excoriata=, Schaeff. P. globose then plane, 5-8 cm. bistre or whitish, silky or squamulose; g. free; s. cylindrical, white, 5-8 cm. hollow, ring free; sp. 14-15 x 8-9. _L. naucina_ differs in the fragmentary ring. [=carneifolia=, Gill. P. fleshy, exp. brown or purple brown, glabrous then minutely broken up into fascicles of fibrils; g. fleshy, crowded, distant from s.; s. white, fibrillose, thickened at base, ring large, soon free. =densifolia=, Gill. P. obtuse, white, soon broken up into adpressed fibrillose scales; g. closely crowded, thin, white, broadest in front; s. white, shining, ring free. =gracilenta=, Kromb. P. soon expanded, obtusely umbonate, 5-8 cm., brown patches on white ground; g. free, broad; s. thickened at base, 12-16 cm., white, ring floccose, disappearing; sp. 10-11 x 7.5. Differs from _L. procera_ in smaller size and more especially in the fugacious ring. _L. prominens_ differs in very large umbo and permanent, free ring. =mastoidea=, Fr. Entirely whitish. P. 3-5 cm. with small disappearing warts; g. free; s. narrow up from bulbous base, 5-8 cm., ring free; sp. 7-8 x 5. The smallest species of the present section. Like _L. gracilenta_ in miniature. ** _Ring fixed, homogeneous with the universal veil clothing the stem._ =Friesii=, Lasch. P. 8-12 cm. expanded, subumb. with adpressed, tomentose brown scales; g. free, crowded; s. 8-12 cm. subbulbous, scaly, brownish, ring pendulous; sp. 8-9 x 5. =acutesquamosa=, Weinm. P. 9-12 cm. convex, obtuse, pale rusty with numerous small pointed warts; g. free, crowded; s. 8-10 cm. narrowed from swollen base, white with rusty scales below, ring large; sp. 7-8 x 4. Differs from _L. Friesii_ in rigid deciduous warts, and broad gills very close to stem.