STROPHARIA 127 



var. Upsaliensis Fr. Upsaliensis, appertaining to Upsala. 



Differs from the type in the convex then plane p. being distinctly 

 umbonate, and in the hollow st. Woods, and pastures. Sept. Oct. 

 Uncommon, (v.v.) 



var. pallida B. & Br. Pallida, pallid. 



Differs from the type in being very pale. 



313. S. coronilla (Bull.) Fr. (= Stropharia melasperma Fr. sec. Quel.) 

 Quel. Jur. et Vosg. t. 14, fig. 7. Kopoavrj, a garland. 



P. 2-5 cm., ochraceous tawny, fleshy, hemispherical, then expanded, 

 smooth ; margin white fioccose. St. 3-4 cm. x 4-10 mm., white, be- 

 coming yellowish with age or when touched, equal, attenuated at the 

 base. Ring white, narrow, median, striate, then violaceous, with the 

 edge white, sinuato-adnate, crowded. Flesh white, firm. Spores purple, 

 elliptical, 9-10 x 5^. Cystidia "on surface of gill clavate, 30-40 x 8- 

 lOju,, on edge of gill filamentous-capitate, 36-45 x 6-10^" Rick. 

 Taste mild. Heaths, and pastures. May Oct. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



314. S. obturata Fr. (= Stropharia coronilla (Bull.) Fr. sec. Quel.) 



Obturata, stopped up. 



P. 2-3 cm., light yellow, fleshy, convex, then plane, obtuse, obso- 

 letely viscid, commonly dry, smooth, often rimosely squamulose. St. 

 2-5-4 cm. x 6-8 mm., white, firm, attenuated downwards, smooth. 

 Ring ivhite, superior, deflexed. Gills white, then purple umber, adnate, 

 plane, crowded. Flesh shining white, thick, compact. Spores purple 

 brown, 7-9 x 4-6ju,. Pastures. Sept. Oct. Rare. 



315. S. melasperma (Bull.) Quel. non Fr. Bres. Fung. Trid. t. 61. 



fMe\a<;, black; (nreppa, seed. 



P. 3-6 cm., whitish, disc straw coloured, fleshy, convex, then plane 

 and somewhat depressed, soft, smooth, slightly viscid, soon dry, often 

 broken up into patches. St. 46 cm. x 6-7 mm., white, subequal, 

 silky fibrillose, becoming smooth, apex striate. Ring white, adnate 

 to the st., striately sulcate to the middle on the upper-side, smooth on 

 the under-side, fugacious. Gills whitish, then violaceous cinereous, at 

 length becoming blackish cinereous, sinuato-adnate, ventricose, crowded. 

 Flesh of p. white, at length becoming somewhat straw colour in the st. 

 Spores fuscous, 9-10 x 6/>t. Heaths, pastures, and woods. Aug. 

 Oct. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



var. lutescens Boud. Cke. Illus. no. 558, t. 535, as Stropharia coronilla 

 Bull. sec. Boud. Lutescens, becoming yellow. 



Differs from the type in the yellow p. 



