142 AGARICINI. 



hollow, furnished half-way up with a sub-erect ring, above which it is white 

 and pulverulent, below ferruginous and villoso-squamose, strigose at the 

 slightly incrassated base.— J/. /. B. Spores "00042 X ■00027 in. There is a 

 variety of this species with a chestnut-brown pileus, which is smooth from 

 the first. 



400. Agaxicus (Strophaxia) stexcozaxius. Fr. "Dung 



iStropharia." 



Pileus rather flesliy, hemispherical, then expanded, even, smooth, 

 discoid ; stem stuffed, elongated, at first flocculose below the 

 distant ring, with a distinct pith, subviscid ; gills adnate, broad, 

 white, umber, then olive-black. — Fr. Epicr. jo. 220. Ann. N. H. 

 no. 688. Bull. t. 566,/. 4. (notEng. Ft. Y>p. lll.j 



On dung. 



Distinguished from A. semiglobatus by the distinct medullary substance 

 ■with which the stem is stuffed ; stem 3 in. and more long, 2-3 lin. thick, 

 yellow ; pileus about an inch broad, yellowish ; spores unusually large, even 

 for a dung-born agaric, -00067 X '00053 in. 



401. Agaxicus (Stxophaxia) semiglobatus. Batsch. " Semi- 



globose Stropharia." 



Pileus somewhat fleshy, hemispherical, even ; stem fistulose, 

 slender, straight, smooth, glutinous, yellowish ; veil abrupt ; 

 gills adnate, broad, plane, clouded with black. — Fr. Epicr. p. 

 220. Batsch. f. 110. Grev. t. 344. Huss. i. t. 39. Eng. Fl.y.p. 

 108. 



On dung. Common. [United States.] 



Pileus ^-1 in. or more broad, hemispherical, yellow, or slightly mottled 

 from the shining through of the gills, viscid when moist, shining and smooth 

 when dry, obtuse, fleshy, flesh white beneath the cuticle, umber near the 

 gills ; gills very broad, adnate with a little tooth, ventricose or plane, 

 mottled with the purple-brown spores, with at length a cinereous, sometimes 

 a yellow tinge ; stem 2-3 in. high, l-l^ line thick, very viscid, shining when 

 dry with a closely glued silkiness, fistulose ; ring more or less perfect, de- 

 flexed.— J/. J. B. Spores '00054 X -00034 in. 



Sub-Gen. 29. Hypholoma, Fr. S. M. i. p. 287. 



Spores brownish-purple, sometimes intense purple, almost 

 black ; veil woven into a spidery fugacious web which adheres 

 to the margin of the pileus, b. (not properly ring-shaped round 

 the stem) ; pileus with an insejDarable pellicle ; stem confluent 

 and homogeneous with the hymenophore. 



Hab. Generally stumps. (PI. V.,fig. 29.J 



Most of the species are gregarious and not edible. Hypholoma corresponds 

 with Tricholonia, Entoloma, and Mebeloma. 



