STROPHARIA 131 



which are erect on the disc; margin appendiculate with the partial veil. 

 St. 2-5-5 cm. x 5-6 mm., whitish, incurved, thickened at the base, 

 covered below the ring with imbricate, erect, fibrillose, fuscous, or olivace- 

 ous scales, which often become rufescent, apex proinose. Ring white, 

 membranaceous, thin, fugacious. Gills white, then rosy, and at length 

 fuscous, sinuato-adnate, crowded, edge white. Flesh white, thin, 

 fragile. Spores "brownish purple, elliptical, lOju," Quel. Poplars, 

 and poplar stumps. Rare. 



325. S. Jerdonii B. & Br. Cke. Illus. no. 569, t. 541. A. Jerdon. 

 P. 45 cm., ochraceous, brown when dry, fleshy, campanulate, obtuse, 



with a broad umbo, minutely rivulose, adorned with superficial, fuga- 

 cious, white scales; cuticle not peeling off. St. 5-7 cm. x 4-6 mm., 

 snow white, cylindrical, apex pulverulent, brownish with silky trans- 

 verse scales below. Ring superior, deflexed. Gills pallid, then brown, 

 adnate, sending a line down the st. but not truly decurrent, trans- 

 versely striate. Flesh white, brownish towards the base of the st., thick 

 at the disc. Spores dark brown, " 10 x 5/>t" Massee. Caespitose. Fir 

 stumps. Sept. Nov. Rare. 



326. S. spintrigera Fr. (= Hypholoma appendiculatum Bull. sec. 



Quel.) Fr. Icon. t. 132, fig. 1. 



Spinther, a bracelet; gero, I wear. 



P. 210 cm., brownish, or pinkish tan, becoming pale, fleshy, fragile, 

 ovate, then expanded, smooth, soft. St. 5-15 cm. x 4-10 mm., 

 shining white, equal, or slightly ventricose, base often subbulbous, 

 floccosely squamose, or fibrillose, apex naked. Ring white, very distant, 

 thin, fugacious. Gills brownish fuscous, adnate, linear, 2-8 mm. wide, 

 joined behind, subdeliquescent. Flesh white, thin, almost none at the 

 margin. Spores fuscous cinereous, elliptical, 7-8 x 4-5/u,. Caespitose. 

 On trunks and stumps. Sept. Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



327. S. punctulata (Kalchbr.) Fr. (= Flammula gummosa (Lasch) 

 Fr. sec. Quel.) Kalchbr. Icon. 1. 14, fig. 2, as Pholiota punctulata 

 Kalchbr. Punctulata, minutely dotted. 



P. 2-5-3 cm., pallid, tinged slightly yellowish or fuscous, fleshy, con- 

 vex, obtuse, disc somewhat depressed, dry, minutely squamulosely 

 punctate from the veil, at length smooth; margin involute. St. 2-5- 

 5cm. x 4-6 mm., pallid, equal, or bulbous at the base, clothed below 

 the ring with fibrillose, punctiform squamules, smooth above. Ring 

 superior, or subapical, thin, formed of the fibrils of the veil brought 

 together in a zone, fugacious. Gills pallid, then pale umber, sinuato- 

 adnate, decurrent with a tooth, 46 mm. broad. Flesh becoming pale 

 fuscous, tawny at the base of the st., thin. Spores fuscous. On buried 

 chips. Sept. Oct. Rare. 



