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Definition of Genus Lepiota
1. Noun. Agarics with white spores that includes several edible and poisonous mushrooms: parasol mushrooms.
Group relationships: Family Lepiotaceae, Lepiotaceae
Member holonyms: Lepiota, Lepiota Procera, Parasol Mushroom, Lepiota Morgani, Poisonous Parasol, Lepiota Naucina, Lepiota Rhacodes, American Parasol, Lepiota Americana, Lepiota Rubrotincta, Lepiota Clypeolaria, Lepiota Cepaestipes, Onion Stem
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Lepiota
Literary usage of Genus Lepiota
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Mushroom Book: A Popular Guide to the Identification and Study of Our by Nina Lovering Marshall (1904)
"genus Lepiota (SEE PLATE FAC.NG PAGE 64) The members of this genus have the gills
free from the stem, and have no wrapper remains at the base of the stem. ..."
2. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1900)
"... genus Lepiota, with an annulus on the stem and the gills usually free from
the, stem, contains several edible species. Lepiota procera, the Parasol ..."
3. Studies of American Fungi: Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, Etc by George Francis Atkinson (1900)
"LEPIOTA Fr. The genus Lepiota lacks a volva, but the veil is present forming a
ring on the stem. The genus is closely related to Amanita, from which it ..."
4. The London Journal of Botany by Sir William Jackson Hooker (1847)
"The fleshy Fungi, as usual, are often identical with European forms, but there
i many, especially of the sub-genus Lepiota, which are *Agaricus ..."
5. The London Journal of Botany by Sir William Jackson Hooker (1847)
"The fleshy Fungi, as is usual, are often identical with European forms, but there
are many, especially of the sub-genus Lepiota, which are distinct. ..."
6. Cyclopedia of American Agriculture: A Popular Survey of Agricultural by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1907)
"Closely related to the genus Amanita there are field mushrooms of the genus
Lepiota, which resemble fairly closely the Destroying Angel in •every way except ..."
7. The Intellectual Observer (1865)
"... but an examination of young specimens will at once decide the matter, and will
distinguish it from the second sub-genus Lepiota, which derives its name ..."
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