88 PSALIOTA 



var. elongate Berk. Field and cultivated mushrooms, fig. 3. 



Elongata, elongated. 



Differs from the type in the even, shining white p., in the margin 

 permanently appendiculate with the veil, and in the long, bulbous st. 

 Scarcely worthy of a varietal name. Pastures under trees. Un- 

 common, (v.v.) 



var. exannulata Cke. Cke. Illus. no. 546, t. 528, fig. B. 



Exannulata, without a ring. 



Differs from the type in the evanescent, or obsolete ring. Scarcely 

 worthy of a varietal name. Pastures. Occasionally, (v.v.) 



193. P. sylvicola (Vitt.) Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 547, t. 529, as Psaliota 

 campestris Linn. var. sylvicola Vitt. 



Sylvicola, inhabiting woods. 



P. 7-11 cm., white, or yellowish, fleshy, globose, then convexo- 

 expanded, silky, becoming even, shining; margin often appendiculate 

 with the partial veil. St. 10-15 x 1-1-5 cm., concolorous, slightly 

 attenuated upwards from the subbulbous base, smooth. Ring con- 

 colorous, membranaceous, large, reflexed. Gills whitish, then slowly 

 becoming fuscous, free, acute behind. Flesh whitish, at length becoming 

 brownish, thin at the margin. Smell and taste pleasant. Edible. 

 Woods and shrubberies. Aug. Nov. Common, (v.v.) 



194. P. exserta (Viv.) Rea. Trans. Brit. Myc. Soc. m, t. 15. 



Exserta, thrust out. 



P. 6-18 cm., white, becoming yellowish ochraceous and broken up 

 into minute adpressed scales, fleshy, campanulate, then convexo-ex- 

 panded. St. 10-15 x 3-6 cm., white, either slightly attenuated up- 

 wards from the base, or ventricose at the middle, bleeding when cut 

 or wounded, almost smooth. Ring white, covered on the underside with 

 yellowish, fugacious warts, membranaceous, large, thick, double, made 

 up of two layers that split apart. Gills whitish, then pinkish, and 

 finally fuscous, free, 5-10 mm. broad, somewhat crowded. Flesh 

 white, immediately turning bright red when bruised, cut, or wounded, 

 and exuding a bright red juice which finally stains the part affected deep 

 brown. Spores deep ochre when deposited in the mass, subglobose, 

 5-6 x 4-5 p, 1-guttulate, with an apical germ-pore. Smell and taste 

 pleasant. Edible. Solitary, or in rings. Pastures. May Nov. Un- 

 common, (v.v.) 



195. P. vfflatica (Brond.) Magn. Cke. Illus. no. 538, t. 521, as Psaliota 



augusta Fr. Villa, a country house. 



P. 10-40 cm., pale brown, sometimes with a yellowish tinge, fleshy, 

 globose, then expanded, very obtuse, disc even, minutely fibrillose, 



