STROPHARIA 129 



15-19 x 9-1 1/i. Cystidia only on the edge of the gill filamentous- 

 capitate, 25-27 x 3-6 fj," Rick. On dung in pastures. Sept. Un- 

 common. 



319. S. merdaria Fr. (= Psilocybe merdaria (Fr.) Rick.) Cke. Illus. 

 no. 565, t. 537. Merdaria, of dung. 



P. 2-5 cm., somewhat cinnamon when moist, then yellow, and at 

 length ochraceous, fleshy, obtusely campanulate, then convexo-plane, 

 gibbous, smooth, pelliculose, moist, hygrophanous, slightly viscid; mar- 

 gin thin, deflexed, even, at length somewhat striate. St. 57*5 cm. 

 x 4-6 mm., straw white, tough, equal, subflexuose, stuffed with a pith, 

 flocculosely villous, and slightly silky, dry, apex striate, base white 

 villous. Ring concolorous, incomplete, torn, for the most part com- 

 monly adhering to the margin of the p. Gills pallid, somewhat isabelline, 

 at length brown fuscous, adnato-decurrent, plane, 6 mm. broad, very 

 broad behind, somewhat crowded, soft, edge white. Flesh whitish, 

 thick at the disc, sometimes fuscous in the st. when old. Spores black 

 fuscous, broadly elliptical, 13-15 x 8-9 /A, with a large central gutta, 

 and flattened germ-pore. Cystidia "on edge of gill cylindrical-fila- 

 mentous, 25-30 x 3-5 jit" Rick. Gregarious, or subcaespitose. On 

 horse dung. Aug. Oct. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



var. major Fr. (= Stropharia ventricosa Massee.) Fr. Icon. t. 130, 

 fig. 3. Major, larger. 



Differs from the type in its much larger size and in the ventricose, 

 rooting st. On horse dung. Sept. Oct. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



320. S. stercoraria Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 566, t. 538. 



Stercoraria, of dung. 



P. 2-3 cm., yellow, fleshy, hemispherical, then expanded, obtuse, 

 orbicular, pelliculoso-viscid, smooth; margin sometimes striate. St. 

 7-10 cm. x 4-6 mm., yellow, equal, stuffed with a separable, fibrous 

 pith, clothed below the ring with the viscid flocculose veil so that it 

 appears as if smooth. Ring viscid, distant, thin, narrow, spreading, 

 floccose. Gills white, then umber fuscous, or olivaceous fuscous, adnate, 

 4-8 mm. broad, very broad behind, somewhat crowded. Flesh pallid, 

 thin at the margin. Spores fuscous purple, oblong elliptical, 18- 

 20 x 8-lOju,, with a flattened germ-pore. Cystidia "lanceolate, 50- 

 70 x 12-18/x " Rick. Quelet says that the st. often rises from a 

 sclerotium. Dry dung. Pastures. May Nov. Common, (v.v.) 



321. S. semiglobata (Batsch) Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 567, t. 539. 



Semiglobata, hemispherical. 



P. 1-3 cm., light yellow, fleshy, hemispherical, very obtuse, smooth, 

 viscid. St. 6-10 cm. x 2-3 mm., becoming yellow, apex paler, equal, 

 tense and straight, smooth, smeared with the glutinous veil. Ring viscid, 



