310 AGARICUS. 



Stropharia. when larger), viscoso-pelliculosc, the ground colour yellowish but 

 verdigris from the azure-blue slime with which it is more or less 

 covered over, becoming pale as the slime separates. Stem hol- 

 low, soft, equal, at the first scaly or fibrillose below the ring, viscid, 

 becoming more or less azure-blue-green. Ring distant. Gills ad- 

 nate, plane, 4 mm. (2 lin.) and more broad, not crowded, soft, 

 whitish then fuscous, becoming somewhat purple. 



The above are the essential marks of this species. Varying caespitose. 

 Polymorphous. The typical and handsomest form is gathered in soaking 

 weather in later autumn in shady woods ; it is large (pileus and stem 7.5 cent. 

 (3 in.) and more), stem squarrose with white spreading scales, pileus sprinkled 

 with white superficial scales, intensely verdigris- or azure-blue-pelliculose and 

 very glutinous. From this there is a long series of forms with the gluten more 

 separating (on the separation of the gluten the pileus becomes yellow), and 

 the scales alike of the pileus and stem rubbed off. Finally, a smaller form 

 occurs in open meadows, stem scarcely 5 cent. (2 in.) long, only 4 mm. (2 lin.) 

 thick, becoming azure-blue-green and without scales, pileus 2.5-5 cent. (1-2 

 in.) broad, pale verdigris soon light yellowish, less viscid. In this form the 

 ring is incomplete, while in the typical form it is entire, spreading, and per- 

 sistent. 



In woods, meadows, &c. Common. July-Nov. 



Poisonous. Spores ellipsoid or sphaeroid-ellipsoid, 8x4-5 mk. K. ; 5x7 

 mk. W.G.S. Name cer/tgo, verdigris. Curt. Loud. t. 309. Fr. Mouogr. \. 

 p. 411. Hym. Eiir. p. 284. Berk. Out. p. 168. C. Hbk. n. 395. S. Alycol. 

 Scot. n. 366. Sow. t. 264. Hussey \. p. 35. Krombh. t. 3. f. 27, 28; t. 62. 

 f. 11-14. Schccff. t. i. Batsch f. 213. Fl. Dan. t. 1248. Klotsch in Fl. 

 Bor. t. 458. Fl. Batav. t. 617. 



695. A. albo-cyaneus Desm. Pileus milk-white and shining 

 when young, tJien verdigris-green, fleshy, convex then plane, 

 smooth, always naked (not scaly) and viscous, but the gluten is 

 limpid and not coloured; flesh soft, watery. Stem about 5 cent. 

 (2 in.) long, 6-8 mm. (3-4 lin.) thick, hollow, soft, at length fragile, 

 equal, ascending or flexuous, rather naked below the ring, not 

 viscid, wholly white and when dry preserving a clear whiteness. 

 Ring a few lines distant, narrow, white or stained fuscous with 

 the spores, pruinate above the ring. Gills adnate, thin, scarcely 

 crowded, rather broad, at first whitish, then somewhat sinuate, 

 becoming fuscous. 



It varies coespitose. Pellicle of the pileus not easily separable. Thinner, 

 smaller, and especially softer than A. cent 



In meadows and fields. Uncommon. Sept.-Oct. 



Spores 7x4 mk. IV. P. Name alb us, white; cyanens, blue. Desuiaz. 

 Cat. p. 22. Fr. Monogr. i. p. 411. Ply in. I-'.nr. p. 284. Berk. Out. p. 168. 

 C. Hbk. n. 396. S. Mycol. Scot. n. 367. Pcrs. Myc. Ear. 3. t. 29. / 2, 3. 



696. A. immctus Fr. Pileus 2.5 cent, (i in.) scarcely 5 cent 



