STKOPHAEIA. 403 



Cooke says that the present species also occurs on dung 

 and sawdust. 



Agaricus (Stropharia) luteo-nitens. Flora Danica, tab. 1057 ; 

 Fries, Hym.Eur., p. 286 ; Cke., Hdbk., p. 200; Cke., Illustr., 

 pi. 604. 



Intermediate between Stropharia squamosa and Psilocyhe 

 coprophila, having the scaly pileus and ring of the former 

 with the stature of the latter. Stem fistulose, firm, 2 in. 

 long, 2 lines thick, equal, even, very minutely silky-fibrillose, 

 pallid, pruinose above the distant, entire,- spreading ring. 

 Pileus rather fleshy, conical then hemispherical, umbonate, 

 1-2 in, broad, even, glabrous, but scaly towards the margin, 

 viscid when moist, yellow and shining when dry ; superficial 

 scales soon disappearing, pallid. Flesh white. Gills sub- 

 adnate, very ventricose, broad, plane, grey then blackish. 

 (Fries.) 



Stropharia merdaria. Fr. 



Pileus -\-l in. across, flesh thin, convex becoming almost 

 plane, obtuse, glabrous, moist, hygrophanous, dingy yel- 

 lowish-brown or pale bay ; gills adnate, ventricose, about 

 Ih line broad, yellowish then umber; stem about 1 in. long, 

 1-1 i line thick, dry, flocculose, pale, hollow; ring torn, 

 fugacious ; spores broadly elliptical, 8 x 5 /x. 



Agaricus (Stropharia) merdarius, Fries, Syst. Myc. i. p. 

 291 ; Cke., Hdbk., p. 200; Cke., Illustr., pL 537. 



On dry dung. Gregarious. 



Stem generally about 1 in. long, when longer flexuous, at 

 length almost even. Veil at first interwoven, then forming 

 a thin ring, portions also remain at the margin of the pileus. 

 Pileus pelliculose, but not truly viscid, almost cinnamon 

 colour when moist, ochraceous when dry, margin at length 

 finely striate. A much larger variety exists (with the habit 

 of S. aeruginosa^ having the pileus gibbous, yellow then 

 straw-colour, stem partly stufi'ed. (Fries.) 



Gregarious, subcaespitose ; stem tough, stuffed with a 

 distinct pith, 2-3 in. long, 2-3 lines thick, equal subflexuous 

 everywhere silky and squamulose, dry, pale straw-colour, 

 base with white down, apex striate due to the decurrent 

 line-like teeth of the gills. I have seen it brown inside 

 when old, ring incomplete, torn, the greater portion usually 



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