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bruised the stem changes colour, becoming purple. The spores are normally Psaliota. 

 fuscous-purple, but they change to fuscous-green with the colour of the 

 ground and (on a black ground) to ochraceous-whitish ; never rose-coloured. 

 Not rightly allied to any. 



On peat-beds in gardens. Rare. 



Spores sometimes colourless, M.J.B. Name ech inns, a hedgehog. Prickly. 

 Roth. Catal. 2. /. 9. f. 5. Fr. Monogr. i. /. 408. Hym. Eur. p. 282. Berk. 

 Out. p. 167. C. Illust. PL 395. S. Mycol. Scot. Siipp. Scot. Nat. 1885, p. 

 25. A. oxyosmus Mont, in Ann. Sc. Nat. 1836. /. 10. /. 3. firigaut. t. 27. 

 f. 1-3. A. Hookeri Klotsch. 



Siibgenus XXX. STROPHARIA (arpofos, a sword-belt ; 

 ring to the ring). Fr. Monogr. i. p. 

 409. Hymenophore continuous with 

 the stem. Veil annular. Gills more or 

 less adnate. Fr. Hym. Eur. p. 283. 



Stropharia corresponds with Ar- 

 inillaria and Pholiota. The species 

 grow on the ground, or are epiphytal. 

 None are edible. 



A. Viscipelles (vise/cm, bird-lime; pellis, 

 skin). Pellicle of the pileiis even or scaly, 

 most frequently viscous. 



* Mundi (iniif/diis, clean), not growing on 

 dung. 



** Merdarii (merda, dung), ring often in- 

 complete. 



B. Spintrigeri (A. spintriger). Pi lens u<ith- 

 out a pellicle, but innato-fibrillose, not viscous. 



- Stropharia. 



Agaric us (Stropharia) 



One-third natural 



sze. 



A. VISCIPELLES. Pellicle of the pileus even or scaly, 



* Mnndi, not growing on dung. 



693. A. versicolor With. Pileus 2.5-10 cent. (1-4 in.) broad, 

 becoming greenish-brown, fleshy, convexo-plane, scaly, the scales 

 of the disc crowded. Stem 5 cent. (2 in.) long, as thick as a swan- 

 quill, spongy-stuffed, bulbous, whitish-fuscous. Ring persistent. 

 Gills decurrent, pallid, then rufous-brown. 



Not recognised since the time of Withering. Name verto, to turn ; color, 

 colour. With. Arr. 4. p. 166. Fr. Hym. Eur. p. 284. Syst. Myc. i. p. 286. 

 Berk. Out. p. 167. C. Hbk. n. 394. 



694. A. aeruginosus Curt. Pileus fleshy, but not compact, 

 campanulato-convex then flattened, somewhat umbonate (obtuse 



