128 STROPHABIA 



316. S. squamosa (Pers.) Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 560, t. 553. 



Squamosa, scaly. 



P. 2-7-5 cm., brownish when moist, then becoming ochraceous, disc 

 tawny, fleshy, hemispherical, then flattened, more frequently obtuse, 

 or gibbous with an obsolete umbo, viscoso-pelliculose when moist, not 

 viscid when dry, sprinkled with superficial, fugacious, piloso-fasciculate, 

 concentric scales. St. 6-12-5 cm. x 4-6 mm., pallid, becoming ferru- 

 ginous at the base, equal, tough, pulverulent above the ring, either 

 squarrose withfibrillose reftexed scales, or covered over with dense, strigose 

 down below the ring. Ring pallid, membranaceous, thin, distant. Gills 

 cinereous, then blackish, edge white, adnate, ventricose, 10-12 mm. 

 broad. Flesh pallid, often reddish when moist, thin, watery. Spores 

 brownish purple, broadly elliptical, often depressed on one side, 14- 

 15 x 7-8 /i, with an apical germ-pore. Cystidia "on edge of gill, fila- 

 mentous-clavate, 50-70 x 4-7 /A " Rick. In troops. Woods and 

 heaths. Sept. Nov. Common, (v.v.) 



var. aurantiaca Cke. Cke. Illus. no. 562, t. 555, as Stropharia thrausta 

 Kalchbr. var. aurantiaca. Aurantiaca, orange. 



Differs from the type in the orange, or brick-red p. Woods. Sept. 

 Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



var. thrausta (Kalchbr.) Cke. (= Stropharia luteo-nitens (Fl. Dan.) 

 Fr. sec. Quel.) Kalchbr. Icon. t. 15, fig. 2. 6pavw, I break. 



Differs from the type in being more slender, and in the p. being soon 

 denuded of its scales. Woods. Sept. Oct. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



317. S. Worthingtonii Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 563, t. 556. 



Worthington G-. Smith, the eminent mycologist. 

 P. 2-3 cm., yellow, fleshy, campanulate, smooth, viscid?. St. 4 

 7 cm. x 1-2 mm., dark blue, flexuose, smooth. Ring incomplete, dis- 

 tant. Gills brown cinnamon, adnate, broad. Flesh of p. pale sulphur 

 yellow, pale bright blue in the St., thin. Spores brown, elliptical, 

 7 x 4/Li. Pastures and woods. Nov. Dec. Uncommon. 



**Growing on dung. Ring often incomplete. 



318. 8. luteo-nitens (Fl. Dan.) Fr. Luteus, yellow; nitens, shining. 

 P. 2-5-5 cm., yellow, fleshy, conico-hemispherical, umbonate, smooth, 



covered with pallid, superficial, fugacious squamules towards the margin, 

 viscid when moist, shining when dry. St. 5 cm. x 4 mm., pallid, equal, 

 somewhat firm, minutely silky fibrillose, apex pruinose. Ring white, 

 distant, membranaceous, entire, spreading. Gills cinereous, becoming 

 blackish, subadnate, truly ventricose, broad, plane. Flesh white, thin. 

 Spores "at first violet, then olive yellow under the microscope, elliptical, 



