140 AGAEICINI. 



Pileus 2 in., ochraceous (brown when dry), campanulate, obtuse, with a 

 broad umbo, fleshy, minutely rivulose, adorned with superficial evanescent 

 snow-white scales, cuticle not peeling off; stem 3 in., 2-3 lin. thick, cylin- 

 drical, snow-white, pulverulent above, brownish, with silky transverse scales 

 below ; ring superior, deflexed ; gills adnate, sending a line down the stem, 

 but not truly d^^current, pallid, then brown, transversely striate. Spores 

 dark brown. — M . J. B. 



394. Agazicus (Stropharia) versicolor. With. 



" Withering's Stropharia." 



Pileus fleshy, convexo- plane, squamose, scales of tlie disc 

 crowded; stem sjDongy, stuffed, bulbous, whitish, then brownish, 

 ring persistent ; gills decurrent, pallid, then reddish-brown. — 

 Fr. Epicr.p. 218. Berk. Outl. p. 167. Eng. Fl. y. p. 109. 



Pileus greenish brown. Not been found since the time of Withering. 

 ''Pileus 1-4 in. broad, scurfy especially in the centre, convex, at length flat, 

 but the edge much curled in ; gills decurrent; stem 2 in. high, as thick as a 

 swan's quill, thickest downwards." — With. 



395. Agaricus (Stropharia) aeruginosus. Curt. " Livid 



Green Stropharia." 



Pileus fleshy, convexo-plane, subumbonate, clothed with 

 green evanescent slime, becoming paler ; stem hollow, equal, 

 fibrillose or squamose below the ring, tinted with blue ; gills 

 adnate, soft, brown, tinged with purple. — F?\ Epicr. p. 218. 

 Curt. FL Lond. t. 309. Sow. t. 261. Kromhh. t. 3,/. 27, 28, t. 

 62,/. 11, 14. Schceff. t. 1. Batsch. f. 218. Fl. Dan. t. 1248. 

 Huss. i. t. 35. Eng. Fl. y. p. 109. Smith, P.M./. 25. Price,/. 

 121. 



In meadows, &c. Common. [S. Carolina.] 



Gregarious ; pileus 1-4 in. broad, convex, thin, expanded, fleshy, dull yel- 

 low, but covered with blue gluten, above this, but not always, clothed with 

 pure white scales ; gills purple brown, or sometimes umber, plane, or very 

 slightly ventricose, adnate with a small tooth, margin white, pulverulent; 

 stem 2-3 in. high, 3-6 lines thick, penetrating into the soil by strong branched 

 white fibres, straight or flexuous, sometimes bulbous, scaly ; scales reflexed, 

 at length more or less smooth, with various tints of blue, green, or yellow, 

 at first stuffed, then hollow, various in stature, sometimes very short and 

 thick, mottled longitudinally with blue within, the centre white ; ring in 

 general fugacious, smell disagreeable.— 3/. J". B. Spores '00028 X '0002 in. 

 There is a variety of this species with the pileus perfectly white from 

 the first. (Fl. V.,Jic/. 2S.) 



396. Agaricus (Stropharia) albo-cyaneus. Desm. " Blue 



and White Stropharia." 



Pileus fleshy, thin, umbonate, even, viscid, greenish, then 

 whitish ; stem hollow, thin, flexuose, even, whitish ; ring in- 



