408 FUNGUS-FLORA. 



On trunks. Caespitose ; jiileTis fragil<'. In Cooko's figure 

 the stem is in every example tliickened at the base. 



Eather caespitose, stem hollow, about 3 in. long, 3 lines 

 thick, equal or sometimes slightly ventricose ; sometimes 

 floccoso-squamose, at others fibrillose, white, apex naked (not 

 mealy) ; ring an inch and more from the pileus, thin, 

 Avhite, fugacious. Pileus rather fleshy, thin, fragile, ovate 

 then expanded, 3-4 in. broad, even, glabrous, soft to the 

 touch, brownish then clay- colour. Flesh thin, white, almost 

 absent from the margin. Gills adnate, linear, 1-2 lines 

 broad, crowded, joined behind, brownish, rather deli(][uescent, 

 edge same coloured, entti'e. Allied to S. appendkidata. 

 (Fries.) 



Stropharia hypsipoda. Fr. 



Pileus 1-2 in. across, flesh thin, convex then almost plane, 

 glabrous, hj'grophanous, brownish -yellow and with the 

 margin slightly striate when moist, pale and with the margin 

 even when dry: gills adnate then seceding, rather distant, 

 pale then dark brown ; stem 3-5 in. high, 2-4 lines thick, 

 equal or slightly thickened at the base, glabrous, whitish, 

 lioUow ; ring median, persistent ; spores elliptical, brown, 

 12-14 X 6-7 fx. 



Agaricus {Stropliarid) hjpsipus, Fries, Epic, p. 218; Cke., 

 Ildbk., p. 201 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. GI9. 



In damp jilaces amongst grass, moss, &c. Solitary. 

 Fragile. 



Stem fistulose, fragile, 3-4 in. long, 2-3 lines thick, equal, 

 glabrous, white ; ring medium, distant from the pileus, 

 membranaceous, white. Pileus rather fleshy, campanulate 

 then convexo-plane, obtuse, 2 in. and more broad, even, 

 glabrous, hygro])hanous, livid-brownish when moist, margin 

 slightly striate ; altogether even (not corrugated), clay- 

 colour. Gills adnate, at lengtli separating from the stem, 

 rather distant, white then brown. (Fries.) 



PILOSACE. Fries, (figs. (3, 7, p. 351). 



Sporophore differentiated from the stem ; gills free from 

 the stem ; general and partial veil both absent, hence there 

 is no ring on the central stem ; spores purple-brown. 



