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clavate, 40-75 x 8-10/u," Eick. Smell none, or somewhat strong. 

 Poisonous. Woods, pastures, heaths, gardens, and thatched roofs. 

 May Nov. Common, (v.v.) 



310. S. squamulosa Massee. Squamulosa, squamulose. 



P. 4-6 cm., very deep verdigris-green, margin whitish, disc becoming 

 ochraceous with age, fleshy, subglobose, then expanded, and slightly 

 depressed, margin drooping, often appendiculate with the veil, dry 

 and silky from the first, soon becoming broken up into adpressed silky 

 scales. St. 5-7 x 2 cm., paler green than the p., slightly constricted at 

 the apex, fibrillosely striate, clothed with white patches of the broken 

 up ring, base white. Gills brown, sinuately adnate, ventricose, rather 

 broad, crowded, thin, dry. Flesh of p. white, tinged with green in 

 the St., rather thin. Spores pale brown, elliptic-oblong, 8-9 x 5/x, 

 obliquely apiculate. Amongst stones, and in woods. Sept. Oct. 

 Uncommon, (v.v.) 



311. S. albocyanea (Desm.) Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 556, t. 552. 



Albus, white; Kvavos, dark blue. 



P. 13 cm., verdigris green, becoming whitish, sometimes white and 

 shining when young, fleshy convex, then plane, viscid with a colourless 

 gluten, smooth, naked. St. 5-8 cm. x 68 mm., whitish, or tinged 

 green, equal, ascending, or flexuose, fragile, not viscid, smooth, 

 pruinose about the ring. Ring white, becoming stained fuscous with 

 the spores, narrow, distant, often incomplete. Gills whitish, becoming 

 fuscous, sinuato-adnate, 3-4 mm. broad, thin, scarcely crowded. 

 Flesh white, soft, watery. Spores purple, elliptical, 8-9 x 4-5/n, with 

 a large central gutta. Woods, heaths, pastures, and ditches. Aug. 

 Nov. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



312. S. inuncta Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 557, t. 534. Inuncta, anointed. 

 P. 2-5-5 cm., pallid light yellow, becoming livid-purple with the dense 



gluten with which it is at first besmeared, fleshy, convexo-plane, sub- 

 umbonate, pelliculose, smooth; margin slightly striate. St. 4-7-5 cm. 

 X 3-4 mm., shining white, equal, very flexuose, often decumbent, 

 very soft, dry, silky fibrillose below the ring, pruinose above. Ring 

 white, median, distant, very thin, fugacious. Gills whitish, then fuscous 

 when bruised, whitish at the sides, adnate, with a decurrent tooth, 

 6 mm. broad, scarcely crowded. Flesh white, thin, soft. Spores fus- 

 cous purple, elliptical, 8 x 5/i, 1-2-guttulate. Smell and taste often 

 disagreeable. Heaths, and pastures. Sept. Nov. Common, (v.v.) 



var. Lundensis Fr. Lundensis, appertaining to Lund, Sweden. 



Differs from the type in the campanulate, then expanded p., and the 

 stuffed st. 



