AGAEICINI. 139 



392. Agaricus (Psalliota) elvensis. B. Sf Br. "Tufted 



Psalliota." 



Csespitose. Pileus from sub-globose to hemisplierical, fibril- 

 lose, broken up into large persistent brown scales, areolate intbe 

 centre, margin thick, coyered witb pyramidal warts ; stem fibril- 

 lose below, ring very large, areolato-verrucose beneath ; gills 

 free, brownish flesh colour. — B. ^- Br. Ann. N.H. 1865, no. 1009. 



Under oak trees. Sept. Bodelwyddan. 



Pileus at first sub-globose, then hemisplierical, 6 in. or more across, mar- 

 gin very obtuse ; stem at first nearly equal, at length swollen in the centre, 

 and attenuated at the base, 4 in. high, 2 in. thick in the centre, fibrillose 

 and areolate below, nearly smooth within the pileus, solid, stuffed with deli- 

 cate threads ; ring thick, very large, deflexed, broken here and there ; gills 

 4 in. broad, free, of a brownish-flesh colour; flesh of pileus J in. thick in 

 centre, turning red when cut. Taste and smell excellent. — B. ct Br. 



Sub-Gen. 27. Pilosace, Fr. 



Agrees in structure with Pluteus, and has the hymenophore 

 distinct from the ringless stem. There are no British represen- 

 tatives. (FL v., jig 21.) 



Sub- Gen. 28. Stropharia, Fr. Monog. Hymen, i. p. 409. 



Spores intense bright purple-brown, brown or slate-colour; 

 veil, if present, universal, superficial, scaly, or viscid ; stem con- 

 fluent behind, and homogeneous with the hymenophore ; gills 

 not free, and rounded. 



Hab. Terrestrial or epiphytal. (PL V., f. 28.) 



Formerly included under Psalliota ; but now separated by Fries on account 

 of the different habit, different attachment of the gills, and other characters ; 

 the species, of which none are edible, have various habits, but most are 

 epiphytal, as are the analogues. Stropharia corresponds with Armillaria 

 and Pholiota.— W. G. S. 



393. Agaricus (Stropharia) Jerdoni. Berk. " Jerdon's 



Stropharia."' 



Pileus campanulate, obtuse, umbonate, fleshy, ochraceous, dry, 

 adorned with superficial white evanescent scales, cuticle not 

 separating ; stem silky or squamulose, hollow ; ring superior ; 

 gills pallid, then brown, transversely striate. — B. ^ Br. Ann. N.H. 

 no. 913, ^xiv./. 2. 



On fir stumps. Nov. Mossburnford. 



