86 PSALIOTA 



whitish cracks, and finally becoming tinged with reddish purple. Pas- 

 tures, and stoves. Feb. Oct. Rare. 



189. P. flavescens Gillet. Trans. Brit. Myc. Soc. ra, t. 16. 



Flavescens, becoming yellow. 



P. 512 cm., white, at once turning saffron colour, then finally light 

 brown when touched or bruised, campanulate, then expanded, smooth, 

 dry, shining with a satin-like sheen, pellicle easily separable. St. 

 10-14 x 1-5-2 cm., white, with a satiny sheen, tinged reddish yellow 

 at the base on one side, cylindrical. Ring dirty white, yellow on the 

 outside, and more deeply coloured at the margin, membranaceous, soon 

 disappearing. Gills pale pink, then darker, and finally brownish, free, 

 crowded. Flesh white, turning instantly bright saffron yellow when 

 fresh, and reddish yellow when drier, especially near the cuticle of the 

 p. and at the base of the st. Spores reddish brown, oval, 56 x 4-5 fi, 

 1-guttulate, with an apical germ-pore. Smell none. Taste not dis- 

 agreeable. Poisonous for some persons. Solitary, or in rings. Pas- 

 tures, and fir woods. July Nov. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



P. cretacea Fr. = Lepiota naucina Fr. 



190. P. perrara Schulz. (=Psaliota augusta Fr. sec. Maire.) Bres. 

 Fung. Trid. t. 89. Perrara, very uncommon. 



P. 6-14 cm., yellow, covered with dense, imbricate, Lepiotsb-like, ful- 

 vous scales, fleshy, campanulate, then expanded. St. 9-11 x 1-5- 

 3 cm., whitish, covered below the ring with evanescent, fulvous scales, 

 incrassated at the base. Ring white, becoming discoloured, squamosely 

 floccose on the under side, large, superior, reflexed. Gills white, then 

 rosy, and at length fuscous, free, often very remote, equally attenuated 

 at both ends, 5 mm. broad, crowded. Flesh white, becoming yellowish 

 in the st. when broken, soft. Spores purplish fuscous, obovate, 7 

 9 x 4-5/u,, 1-guttulate. Oak woods, and under oaks. Aug. Oct. 

 Uncommon, (v.v.) 



191. P. pratensis (Schaeff.) Fr. Cke. lUus. no. 543, t. 525. 



Pratensis, growing in meadows. 



P. 59 cm., whitish, becoming cinereous, fleshy, ovoid, then expanded, 

 obtuse, silky, villous under a lens, becoming rimosely squamulose, dry. 

 St. 5-8 x 1 cm., white, equal, slightly incrassated at the base, firm, 

 smooth. Ring white, membranaceous, median, deciduous. Gills cine- 

 reous, then fuscous, free, approximate, rounded behind, acutely attenu- 

 ated in front. Flesh white, thick, firm. Spores brown, elliptical, or 

 pip-shaped, 5-6 x 3/x, 1-guttulate. Smell and taste pleasant. 

 Edible. Woods, pastures, and hedgerows. July Oct. Uncommon. 



