312 AGARICUS. 



Stropharia. lin.) thick, liollo'w, eqital, fragile, dry, smooth, sometimes yf(^rz7/^j-^ 

 below the ri?ig, shining- white or becoming yellow. Ring medial, 

 membranaceous, white. Gills deeply 7-oiinded and sometimes 

 emarginate, ventricose, broad, crowded, pallid then sometimes 

 V'iolaceous-fuscous, sometimes cinereous-fuscous. 



Spores fuscous on a white ground, vinous- or fuscous-purplish on a black 

 ground. In woods the stem is elongated. 



In meadows and borders of thickets. Rare. Aug. 



According to BuUiard, &c., the spores are black. Name— /oieAa?, black; 

 trwep/xa, seed. Black-spored. Bull. t. 540. f. i. Fr. Mo/iogr. i. p. 413 

 (phasospermus). Hy/n. Eur. p. 285. Icoti. t. 130. /. 2. Berk. Out. p. 168. 

 B. 6^ Br. n. 1254. C. Hbk. ?i. 398. S. MycoL Scot. n. 370. Quel. t. 24. /. 

 3 (pileus white). 



699. A. squamosus Fr. — Pileus 2.5-7.5 cent. (1-3 in.) broad, 

 ochraceous, fleshy, thin, hemispherical then flattened, more fre- 

 quently obtuse or gibbous with an obsolete umbo, viscoso-pellic- 

 ulose when moist, not viscous when dry; sprinkled \\\\.h. superficial 

 piloso-fasciculate concentric scales. Stem 7.5-12.5 cent. (3-5 in.) 

 long, 4 mm. (2 lin.) thick, tubular, at first stuffed, soon hollow, 

 slender, equal, tough, pallid upwards, ferruginous below, pulver- 

 ulent above the entire membranaceous distant ring, villous-scaly 

 below. Gills adnate, broad, crowded, plane, cinereous then 

 blackish, white at the edge. 



Below the ring the stem is sometimes A) squarrose with fibrillose reflexed 

 scales ; sometimes B) wholly covered over with dense strigose down. A. Pers. 

 Fl. Dan. t. 2077. /! i. B. A. distans Pers. Fl. Dan. t. iQrj'j.f. 2. Var. with 

 pileus fuscous, on trunks of alder. Weinm. p. 243. 



In woods and open ground. Frequent. Sept.-Oct. 



Spores 10x7 mk. W.G.S. Name — squama, -a. ^q.'aXq. Scaly. Fr. Monogr. 

 \. p. 414. Hyjn. Eur. p. 285. Berk. Out. p. 168. /. 10./. 6. C. Hbk. n. 399. 

 S. Mycol. Scot. n. 371. 



A. thraustus Kalchbr. Fimg. Himg. t. iS-f- 4 exactly resembles 

 A. squamosus or distans Fl. Dan. t. 2077. f. 2 with the easily 

 separating scales of the pileus removed. The description however 

 diff'ers, inasmuch as it is represented as very fragile and hygroph- 

 anous, in which it approaches A. albonitens. 



Spores oblong, ovate, .015 mm. long. Name — flpav'w, to break. Brittle, 

 easily broken. Rannoch. Fr. Hym. Eur. p. 286. B. &^ Br. n. 1659. 

 Grevillea, vol. vi. p. loi. S. Mycol. Scot. p. 70. 



700. A. Percevali B. & Br.— Pileus 5 cent. (2 in.) broad, ochra- 

 ceous, fleshy, um.bonate then flattened, slightly viscid, white- 

 floccose here and there especially at the margin ; flocci at length 



