90 PSALIOTA 



198. P. setigera Fr. 1 (= Pratella sylvatica SchaefE. sec. Quel.) Paul, 

 t. 132, figs. 3-4. Setigera, having coarse hairs. 



P. pale umber, fleshy, convex, then plane, obtuse, smooth, silky. 

 St. covered with pale umber, pilose squamules, equal. Ring thin, 

 fugacious. Gills fuscous umber, free. Woods. 



199. P. rubella (Gillet) Rea (= Pratella sylvatica SchaefE. sec. Quel.) 

 Gill. Hym. Fr. t. 102, as Pratella rubella Gillet. 



Rubella, reddish. 



P. 4-8 cm., entirely covered with red fibrils, or scales, disc red brown, 

 paler towards the margin, convex, or obtusely umbonate. St. 5 cm., 

 white, or whitish, becoming stained with blood red like the p., slightly 

 subbulbous at the base, cartilaginous, fibrillose. Ring fugacious. Gills 

 rosy flesh colour, then brownish purple, free, slightly ventricose, 

 crowded. Flesh white, becoming blood red, firm. Spores "4-75 6 x 3- 4, 

 generally 5 x 3-5 " Sacc. Under conifers. Sept. Oct. Rare. 



**Smaller, p. thinly fleshy. 



200. P. comtula Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 130, fig. 1. Comtula, adorned. 

 P. 35 cm., yellowish white, disc often tawny, fleshy, convex, then 



plane, obtuse, adpressedly fibrillosely silky. St. 3-5 cm. x 4-6 mm., 

 white, becoming somewhat light yellow, somewhat attenuated at the base, 

 apex striate, satiny. Ring concolorous, membranaceous, median, torn, 

 fugacious, very thin. Gills flesh colour, then rose, and finally fuscous 

 flesh colour, free, rounded behind, broader in front, crowded. Flesh 

 white, or slightly yellowish, thin, soft. Spores purple fuscous, elliptical, 

 5 x 3/Lc, 1-guttulate. Smell and taste strong of anise. Edible. Woods, 

 heaths and pastures. May Oct. Common, (v.v.) 



201. P. amethystina Quel. Roz. & Rich. t. 18, figs. 1-5. 



Amethystina, amethyst colour. 



P. 3-5 cm., white, becoming either rose, lilac, or amethyst coloured 

 from the centre outwards, fleshy, convex, then expanded, umbonate, 

 villose, or fibrillose. St. 3-6 cm. x 5-10 mm., white, subbulbous at 

 the base, fragile, glabrous. Ring white, thin, satiny. Gills light grey, 

 then bay brown, free, ventricose, 6-7 mm. broad, crowded. Flesh 

 white, thin. Spores brownish purple, roundish oblong, 5-7 x 4/z, 

 1-2-guttulate. Smell like that of Psaliota sylvicola. Taste pleasant. 

 Edible. Woods, and pastures. Aug. Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



202. P. subgibbosa Fr. Sub, somewhat; gibbosa, humpbacked. 

 P. 2-2-5 cm., yellowish, fleshy, convexo-plane, subumbonate, 



smooth; margin silky fibrillose. St. 2-5 cm. x 2-4 mm., pallid. Ring 

 cortinate, fugacious. Gills white, then cinereous fuscous, free, remote. 

 Spores fuscous. Fir woods. Rare. 



1 This is listed as British by Massee in his Eur. Fung. Fl. Agar. 207. 



