82 ANNULABIA. PSALIOTA 



181. A. laevis (Krombh.) Schulz. (= Lepiota pudica (Bull.) Quel.) 

 Krombh. Icon. t. 26, figs. 16 and 17, as Agaricus laevis Krombh, 



Laevis, smooth. 



P. 5-12 cm., white, disc brownish, or yellowish, convex, expanded, 

 obtuse, or subumbonate, sometimes minutely squamulose; margin 

 often cracked, appendiculate with the remains of the ring. St. 

 4-12 x -5-1 cm., white, slightly attenuated upwards, base bulbous, 

 silky. Ring white, large, free, subdistant. Gills white, then flesh colour, 

 free, narrowed behind, somewhat crowded, thin. Flesh white, firm. 

 Spores pink, "subglobose, 7-8 /i" Massee. Bushy places amongst 

 grass. Aug. Oct. Uncommon. 



182. A. transilvanica Schulz. 



Transilvanica, belonging to Transylvania. 



P. whitish, disc darker, campanulate, striate to the vertex; margin 

 lobed. St. paler than the p., flocculose, hollow. Ring membranaceous, 

 complete. Gills crowded, unequal. 



Spores purple, or fuscous. 



Psaliota Fr. 

 (fyakiov, a ring.) 



Pileus more or less fleshy, regular. Stem central. Ring mem- 

 branaceous, adnate, persistent, rarely fugacious. Gills free. Spores 

 fuscous purple, reddish purple, blackish purple, or fuscous, elliptical, 

 oval, globose, or obovate, with an apical germ-pore. Cystidia present, 

 or absent. Growing on the ground. 



*Large, fleshy. 



183. P. augusta Fr. (= Psaliota Elvensis B. & Br. sec. Quel.) Bres. 



Fung. Trid. t. 60, as Psalliota villatica Brond. 



Augusta, majestic. 



P. 10-30 cm., whitish, fuscous citron, or dark straw colour, fleshy, 

 globose-hemispherical, then expanded, very obtuse, silky, soon break- 

 ing up into adpressed squamules; margin exceeding the gills, tomen- 

 tosely toothed. St. 6-20 x 1-5-5 cm., white, becoming yellowish when 

 bruised, then brownish, very firm, attenuated upwards from the base 

 which is sunk in the earth, smooth, flocculose just under the ring. 

 Ring white and smooth above, yellowish and areolately floccose on the 

 under side, very wide, adnate to the st. for 2-3 cm., then free and 

 pendulous. Gills pallid, then fuscous, free, separated from the st. by a 

 broad collar, narrow at first, becoming wider, simple, thin, crowded. 

 Flesh whitish, becoming yellowish or brownish in the st. when broken, 

 soft, floccose like that of Lepiota procera. Spores brownish purple, 



