124 PHOLIOTA. STROPHARIA 



III. Growing amongst mosses. Like ringed Galerae, hygrophanous. 



303. P. pumila Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 105, fig. 4. Pumila, dwarf. 

 P. 8-15 mm., ochraceous, somewhat fleshy for its size, campanulate, 



then hemispherical, obtuse. St. 2-5-4 cm. x 2-3 mm., concolorous, equal, 

 lax. Ring distinct, floccoso-woven in the form of a zone like that of the 

 Cortinarii. Gills pallid, wholly adnate, at first ascending, then plane, 4 

 6 mm. broad, almost triangular, crowded, stopping short of the acute 

 margin. Flesh concolorous, thin, watery. Spores ferruginous, pip- 

 shaped, 9 x 4-5jit. Amongst moss in pastures, on twigs, sawdust, 

 and old walls. Aug. Jan. Common, (v.v.) 



304. P. mycenoides Fr. (= Galera mycenoides (Fr.) Quel.) Boud. 



Icon. t. 102. Mycena, the genus Mycena; etSo?, shape. 



P. 1-2-5 cm.., ferruginous, disc darker, transparent when moist; be- 

 coming tawny, or pale when dry, membranaceous, hygrophanous, 

 striate, campanulate, soon hemispherical, somewhat obtuse. St. 4- 

 10 cm. x 1-3 mm., tawny ferruginous, darker than the pileus, filiform, 

 apex furfur aceous, paler, then concolorous. Ring white, membranace- 

 ous, entire, large, persistent. Gills yellowish, then ferruginous, adnate, 

 with a small decurrent tooth, subdistant, at length plane. Flesh con- 

 colorous, darker in the stem. Spores ferruginous, broadly elliptical, 

 10-11 x 6-7 /A, 1-3-guttulate. Amongst moss in pastures, bogs, and 

 on lawns. Sept. Dec. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



305. P. rufidula Kalchbr. Kalchbr. Icon. t. 37, fig. 3. Rufus, red. 

 P. 6-10 mm., rufous brick-red, clay colour when dry, often becoming 



livid round the umbo, somewhat fleshy, convex, then somewhat plane, 

 disc always depressed, white-fiocculose at the margin from the white 

 veil, rarely appendiculate. St. 3-4 cm. x 2-3 mm., watery rufescent, 

 sprinkled with white fugacious fibrils, floccose at the white base. Ring 

 white, floccose, somewhat persistent, subapical, narrow, spreading, 

 reflexed. Gills reddish, adnate, then decurrent, linear, branched, of 

 different lengths, subdistant. Flesh concolorous. Spores ochraceous 

 ferruginous, "8-10 x 4-6/u.," Massee. Pastures, and lawns. April. 

 Rare. 



Spores purple, or fuscous. 



Stropharia Fr. 

 (<TT/3o^o?, a belt.) 



Pileus fleshy, regular. Stem central. Ring membranaceous, adnate, 

 persistent, or fugacious. Gills more or less adnate. Spores purple, or 

 fuscous, rarely blackish, elliptical, elliptic-oblong or pip-shaped, 

 smooth, with an apical germ-pore. Cystidia variable. Growing on 

 the ground, on dung, and on wood, sometimes caespitose, sub- 

 caespitose, or fasciculate. 



