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In meadows, &c. Cosmopolitan. May-Oct. Psaliota. 



Although very common it is very capricious in its growth. Edible. Well 

 known as the common mushroom. Spores sphaeroid-ellipsoid, 9 x 6 mk. A'./ 

 6x8 mk. U'. (r.S. Name campus, a plain, field. Linn. Siiec. n. 1205. !'>' 

 Monogr. i. p. 406. Hym. Eur. p. 279. Sverig. all. Sv. t. 5. Berk. Out. p. 

 165. C. Hbk. n. 390. S. Mycol. Scot. n. 364. Sow. t. 305. Grev. t. 161. 

 Hitssey \. t. 90. Schceff. t. 33. Krombh. t. 23. /. 1-8. I'ittad. t. 6-8. Barla 

 t. 27. Tratt. t. K. Gonn. & Rab. 2. /. i. &c. 



* A. silvicola Yitt. Pileus becoming even, shining, white. 

 Stem stuffed, elongated, somewhat bulbous, ring simple; flesh 

 somewhat unchangeable. Gills acute behind, whitish then slowly 

 becoming fuscous. 



Like A. arvensis, but distinguished by the ring, &c. 



In woods. Xot uncommon. Name silva, a wood ; colo, to inhabit. Vitt. 

 Fr. Hym. Eur. p. 280. Motwgr. i. /. 406. Berk. Out. p. 166. C. Hbk. n . 

 390. S. Mycol. Scot. ?i. 364. Krombh. t. 23. /. 8. Go/in. Rab. ii. /. 2. 

 Paul. t. 183. 



689. A. silvaticus Schaeff. -- Pileus 7.5 cent. (3 in.) broad, 

 somewhat ferruginous, scales rufescent or becoming fuscous, 

 thinly fleshy, oval then campanulate and flattened, somewhat um- 

 bonate, the whole surface floccose, torti into squamitles, the disc 

 however often remaining continuous, and at length denuded of 

 scales, margin often rimosely incised ; flesh thin, fragile, white, 

 commonly rufescent. Stem 7.5 cent. (3 in.) and more long, 12 

 mm. (% in.) thick, slender, at first stuffed with a cylindrical sep- 

 arate white pith, then hollow, equal, dingy white, fibrillose below 

 the ring, even above it, smooth. Ring distant, simple, floccose 

 beneath, sometimes wide but thin and membranaceous, some- 

 times narrow, incomplete, fugacious. Gills free, ventricose, 

 equally attenuated at both ends, thin, arid, reddish then cinnamon- 

 fuscous or umber-fuscous. 



The flesh is much thinner than that of its allies. The stem is much longer 

 and more slender than that of A. campestris, &c. 



In woods. Frequent. July-Sept. 



Smell strong, AI.J.B. Spores 4x6 mk. W.G.S. Name silva, a wood. 

 Schcrff. t. 242. Fr. Monogr. i. p. 406. Hym. Eur. p. 280. Berk. Out. p. 

 167. C. Hbk. n. 391. S. Mycol. Scot. u. 365. Krombh. t. 24. /. 9, 10 (in- 

 clining to A. campestris). 



690. A. haemorrhoidarius Kalchbr. Pileus rufous-fuscous, 

 fleshy, ovate then expanded, covered with broad adpressed scales, 

 margin at first bent inwards; flesh when broken immediately 

 blood-red. Stem soon hollow, fibrillose, the solid base some- 

 what bulbous. Ring superior, large. Gills free, approximate, 

 crowded, rosy-flesh-colour, at length purple-umber. 



