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A. Pellicle of the p. even, or scaly, most frequently viscid. 

 *Not growing on dung. 



306. S. depilata (Pers.) Fr. Depilata, plucked. 



P. 3-12 cm., yellowish-livid, then tan, fleshy, convex, then plane, 

 obtuse, smooth, viscid. St. 415 cm. x 513 mm., white, equal, 

 clothed with white, revolute, squarrose scales below the ring. Ring white, 

 large, distant. Gills white, then blackish, adnato-decurrent, 3-8 mm. 

 broad. Flesh white, compact. Spores brownish purple, elliptical, 

 7-8 x 4-5 /A. Amongst straw refuse, and in pine woods. Nov. Rare. 

 (v.v.) 



307. S. Percevalii B. & Br. Cke. Illus. no. 554, t. 550. 



Cecil H. Spencer Perceval. 



P. 3-6 cm., ochraceous, fleshy, umbonate, then flattened, slightly 

 viscid, white floccose here and there especially at the margin, flocci at 

 length coming off. St. 5-7-5 cm. x 6 mm., pallid upwards, attenuated 

 upwards from the thickened base, rooting, transversely scaly. Ring 

 narrow, more or less persistent. Gills white, then somewhat cinereous, 

 at length pallid umber, adfixed, 8 mm. broad, very distant. Flesh at 

 length dull umber. Spores fuscous, oblong elliptic, 16-17 x 7/u,. Saw- 

 dust, and rotten wood. Sept. Nov. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



308. S. versicolor (With.) Fr. (= Armillaria mellea (Vahl.) Fr. var. 

 versicolor W. G. Sm.) Versicolor, of various colours. 



P. 2'5 10 cm., becoming greenish brown, fleshy, convexo-plane, 

 scaly, the scales of the disc crowded. St. 5 cm., as thick as a swan- 

 quill, whitish fuscous, spongy-stuffed, bulbous. Ring persistent. Gills 

 pallid, then rufous brown, decurrent. On the ground. 



309. S. aeraginosa (Curt.) Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 555, t. 551. 



Aeruginosa, full of copper rust. 



P. 3-8 cm., verdigris green from the azure blue slime, becoming pale and 

 yellowish as the slime separates, fleshy, campanulato-convex, then 

 flattened, subumbonate, obtuse when larger, viscoso-pelliculose, often 

 covered with white, fugacious squamules. St. 410 cm. x 412 mm., 

 concolorous, equal, viscid, covered with white, fugacious squamules below 

 the ring, smooth above. Ring whitish above, concolorous on the under- 

 side, distant, floccose, fugacious. Gills white, then fuscous, at length 

 somewhat purple, adnate, soft, plane, 4-8 mm. broad, not crowded, 

 edge often white. Flesh bluish, becoming whitish, not compact, thin 

 at the margin. Spores brownish purple, elliptical, 7-10 x 5)n. 

 Cystidia "on surface of gill, clavate, often with a short point, 30- 

 33 x 8-10, contents becoming yellow, on edge of gill filamentous- 



