150 AGARICINI. 



adpressed to the stem ; stem fistulose, ringless, cartilaginous, 

 fragile, confluent with but heterogeneous from the hymeno- 

 phore. 



Hab. On the ground or rotten wood. (^Pl. V.,f. 31.) 



All are slender and hygrophanous, with fugitive colouring, and closely 

 allied to the fro.gile species of the last subgenus. Fsathyra agrees with 

 Mycejia, Nolanea, Oalera, Psathyrella- 



Sect. 1. Conopili. 



422. Agaricus (Psathyxa) conopilus. P. "Silvery 



Psathyra." 



Pileus submembranaceous, campanulate, even, smooth, grow- 

 ing pale ; stem tall, attenuated upwards, smooth, silvery-shin- 

 ing ; gills slightly adnexed, crowded, brownish purple. — Fr. 

 Epicr. ^.231. Jiingli. Linn. v. t. 6,/. 11. 



In gardens. Eare. 



Stem -i-6 in. long, 1-2 lines thick. Pileus dirty white at first, 2 in. 

 broad. 



423. Agaricus (Psathyra) xnastiger. Berk. S)' Br, "Peaked 



Psathyra." 



Pileus conico-campanulate, repand, dark brown, then tan- 

 coloured ; stem straight, attenuated upwards ; gills ascending, 

 fixed, umber. — B. ^- Br. Ann. N.H. no. 921, ^. xiv,/. 6. 



On the roadside, amongst grass, Sept. Aj^ethorpe. 



Pileus about 1 in. across, at first nearly cylindrical, obtuse, then conico- 

 campanulate. with a strong mammiform umbo, repand, dark rich brown when 

 moist, umber tan when dry, somewhat fleshy, not striate ; margin straight ; 

 stem 3 in. or more high, l|-2 lines thick, attenuated upwards, white, smooth, 

 or fibrillose and furfuraceous, fistulose, pale umber within, and as the plant 

 dries, acquiring the tint of the pileus, but pale ; veil none ; gills umber, 

 paler on the edge, rather narrow, affixed, ascending. — B.d;Br. 



424. Agazicus (Psathyra) corrugis. P. "Wrinkled 



Psathyra." 



Pileus submembranaceous, campanulate, umbonate, somewhat 

 wrinkled, smooth, growing pale ; stem elongated, equal, smooth, 

 white ; gills sinuate, fixed, ventricose, violet, black. — Fr. Epicr. 

 p. 231. Holms. u.t.32. Eng.Fl.y. p. 116. 



In pastures. 



var. /3. gracilis. Ft.— Bull. t. 561,/. 1. B. 4- Br. Ann. N.H. 

 (1866), 710.1126*. 



