PSALIOTA 83 



elliptical, 7-13 x 5-6/i. Smell pleasant like anise, sometimes dis- 

 agreeable. Taste pleasant, often like almonds. Edible. Woods, and 

 pastures, often near ant hills. Aug. Sept. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



184. P. peronata Massee non Roz. et Rich. (= Psaliota augusta Fr. 

 sec. Rene Maire.) Peronata, booted. 



P. 10-12-5 cm., pale dull ochraceous, densely covered with small, 

 brown, silky scales, that become larger towards the margin, fleshy, 

 hemispherical, then expanded. St. 12-5-15 x 1-5 cm., white, equal, 

 marginately bulbous at the base, covered with large, white, upward point- 

 ing, squarrose scales below the ring, smooth above the ring. Ring 

 yellowish, large, spreading. Gills pink, then pale purple brown, very 

 distant from the st., 6-7 mm. broad, crowded. Flesh white, becoming 

 brownish in the st. when cut. Spores purple-brown, obliquely ellip- 

 tical, 6 x 4/1,. Taste pleasant. Edible. Pine woods. Oct. Rare. 



185. P. Elvensis B. & Br. Boud. Icon. t. 134. 



Elvensis, belonging to the river Elwy. 



P. 8-15 cm., purplish brown, fleshy, subglobose, then hemispherical, 

 at length often flattened and slightly depressed at the areolate disc, 

 fibrillose, breaking up into large, persistent, floccose, pointed, somewhat 

 revolute darker scales; margin very obtuse, thick, covered with pyra- 

 midal warts. St. 7-15 x 2-5-5 cm., concolorous and fibrillose below the 

 ring, apex paler, equal, becoming swollen in the centre, and attenu- 

 ated at the base. Ring concolorous, membranaceous, thick, deflexed, 

 broken here and there, more or less floccose at the margin and on the 

 underside which is often areolate. Gills brownish flesh colour, then 

 brownish purple, free, 6-8 mm. broad. Flesh turning red when cut, 

 then becoming brownish, thick, firm. Spores brownish purple, globose, 

 or subglobose, 6 x 4-5 p, with a large central gutta. Smell and taste 

 pleasant. Edible. Often caespitose. Under oaks, beeches, firs, and 

 on roadsides. Aug. Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



186. P. Bernard!! Quel. Trans. Brit. Myc. Soc. ra, t. 14. 



G. Bernard. 



P. 10-20 cm., white, then becoming ferruginous at the apex of the 

 warts, fleshy, convex, then expanded, firm, the tomentose surface 

 soon breaking up into thick, angular warts. St. 6-7 x 4-5 cm., white, 

 becoming reddish brown with age, attenuated upwards from the bulbous 

 base, apex striate. Ring white, membranaceous, soon disappearing, 

 striate on the upper surface. Gills greyish flesh colour, then blackish 

 purple, free, attenuated at both ends, 8-12 mm. broad. Flesh white, 

 then tinged with purple, and finally stained with reddish brown, firm. 

 Spores blackish purple, ovoid elliptical, 9-11 x 6-7 fj,, 1-guttulate, 

 with an apical germ-pore. Smell unpleasant. Taste disagreeable. 

 near the sea. Sept. Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



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