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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 colonrless.M. y.B. Name echiiuis, a hedgehog. Prickly. 

 Roth. Catal. 2. /. 9./; 5. Fr. Monogr. i. /. 408. Hym. Eur. p. 282. Bei'k. 

 Out. p. 167. C. Illnst. PL 395. S. Mycol. Scot. Supp. Scot. Nat. 1885, p. 

 25. A. oxyosmus Mont, in Ann. Sc. Nat. 1836. /. \o. f. 3. Brigant. t. 27. 

 f. 1-3. A. Hookeri Klotsch. 



Subgenus XXX. STROPHARIA {(rrpocpos, a sword-belt ; refer- Stropharia. 

 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. 



Strophiria corresponds with Ar- 

 viillaria and Pholiota. The species ^^iM^r^^ 



re epiphytal. '^'^li 1 '"'' 



grow on the ground, or are epiphytal. 

 None are edible. 



A. Viscipelles {visciun, bird-lime; pellii, 

 skin). Pellicle of the pi lens even or scaly, 

 most frequently viscous. 



* Mzindi {mundus, clean), not growing on 

 dung. 



** Merdarii {i?ierda, dung), ring often in- 

 complete. 



B. Spintrigeri {A. spintriger). Pileus with- 

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



XXXI. Agaric us (^StropJiaria) 

 (ii'Kgiiiosus. One-third natural 

 size. 



A. VisciPELLi-:s. Pellicle of ilic pileus even or scaly, &^c. 

 * Mujidi, not growing on dung. 



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

 becoming greenish-brown, fleshy, convexo-plane, sq2\)'., 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. /'"/-. Ilym. Eur. p. 284. Syst. Myc. i. p. 286. 

 Berk. Out. p. 167. C. Ilbk. u. 394. 



694. A. seruginosus Curt. — Pileus fleshy, but not compact, 

 campanulato-convex then flattened, somewhat umbonate (obtuse 



