130 STROPHARIA 



incomplete, distant, thin. Gills clouded with black, adnate, very broad, 

 8-10 mm., plane. Flesh pallid, thin. Spores fuscous purple, ellip- 

 tical, 15-17 x 9-10/A. Cystidia only on edge of gill, filamentous, apex 

 obtuse, 5-6/i in diam., base ventricose, 50-60 x 7-1 1/i. On dung, 

 especially horse. Woods, and pastures. April Nov. Common, (v.v.) 



B. P. without a pellicle, but innato-fibrillose, not viscid. 



322. S. caput-Medusae Fr. (= Hypholoma caput-Medusae (Fr.) Rick.) 

 Cke. Illus. no. 568, t. 540. 



Caput, head; Medusa, a monster with snakes instead of hair. 

 P. 3-7-5 cm., disc umber, paler, somewhat tan colour towards the 

 margin, fleshy, ovate, then convexo-expanded, obtuse, or obtusely 

 umbonate, dry, when young very densely, scaly-squarrose with the fuscous 

 veil, soon becoming smooth especially at the disc, which becomes 

 rimosely warty, or granulose; margin thin, splitting. St. 5-12 x 1- 

 1-5 cm., whitish, equally attenuated upwards, somewhat fragile, 

 covered below the ring with fuscous, crowded, imbricate, squarrose scales, 

 white mealy above. Ring white, superior, membranaceous, pendulous, 

 margin very much swollen, floccose, fuscous. Gills clay white, then pale 

 umber, fuscous spotted in appearance, adnate, ventricose, lanceolate, 

 or semiovate, 4-6 mm. broad, not very crowded, fragile. Flesh pallid, 

 thick at the disc. Spores fuscous purple, pip-shaped, 8-9 x 4/z, 

 1-guttulate. Cystidia " vesiculose-flask-shaped, 45-60 x 12-20 p, 

 rounded above" Rick. Subcaespitose, or fasciculate. On and near 

 pine stumps. Sept. Oct. Rare, (v.v.) 



323. S. scobinacea Fr. (= Stropharia versicolor (With.) Quel., Hypho- 



loma scobinacea (Fr.) Rick.) Cke. Illus. no. 1179, t. 1189. 



Scobinacea, powdered. 



P. 3-5 cm., fuscous, disc livid, becoming yellow, circumference grey- 

 violaceous, fleshy, hemispherical, then expanded, gibbous, slightly sul- 

 cate, covered with crowded, adpressed, separating, fugacious, blackish 

 squamules. St. 6-9 cm. x 6-8 mm., white, attenuated from the 

 thickened base, fragile, fibrillose, apex mealy. Ring white, superior, 

 fugacious. Gills whitish flesh colour, then purple, adnate, crowded, 

 crenulated. Flesh whitish, pinkish when exposed to the air, thin. 

 Spores brownish purple, elliptical, 7-8 x 3/u,. Caespitose. On and 

 near stumps, especially ash. April Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



S. cotonea Quel. = Hypholoma lacrymabundum Fr. 



324. S. Battarrae Fr. Quel. Jur. et Vosg. t. 22, fig. 4, as Stropharia 

 aculeata Quel. 



J. A. Battarra, author of Fungorum Agri Ariminensis Historia. 



P. 57 cm., whitish, grey, fuscous, or olivaceous, fleshy, hemispherical, 



then plane, obtuse, covered with darker, adpressed, fibrillose scales, 



