PSATHYRELLA 421 



equal, smooth, beaded with dew-like drops in wet weather. Gills palegrey, 

 then livid black, adnate, ascending, narrow, linear, 2 mm. broad, 

 crowded. Spores bay purple, "elliptical, 9-10 x 5 6/i, smooth, trans- 

 parent brown. Cystidia on edge of gill subulate, 50-60 x 8-10/i" 

 Rick. Caespitose. Gardens, and woods. Sept. Oct. Rare. 



**St. flexuose, pruinate at the apex. 



1354. P. caudate Fr. (= Panaeolus caudatus (Fr.) Quel.) Cke. Illus. 

 no. 639, t. 637. Caudata, having a tail. 



P. 2-5 cm., date brown, tan colour obsoletely turning to flesh colour 

 when dry, membranaceous, very tender, conical, then campanulate, 

 at length flattened, smooth, disc subgibbous, even, otherwise pellucidly 

 striate, dry, often splitting and subdeliquescent in wet weather. St 

 7 11 cm. x 3-4 mm., whitish, attenuated upwards from the thick- 

 ened, rooting, fibrillose base, very fragile, curved, at length twisted, un- 

 dulate, apex white pruinose. Gills grey, then cinereous black, adnate, 

 8mm. broad. Spores fuscous black, "elliptical, 13-17 x 8-9 /x, 

 smooth, opaque. Cystidia on edge of gill, ventricose-fusiform, 30 

 40 x 9-10/i"Rick. In troops, or caespitose. Gardens, charcoal heaps, 

 and stumps of a wooden pavement. May Dec. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



1355. P. prona Fr. (== Psathyrella prona Fr. var. Smithii Massee.) 

 Fr. Icon. t. 139, fig. 3. Prona, bending downwards. 



P. 5-12 mm., fuliginous, hoary when dry, hygrophanous, membrana- 

 ceous, campanulate, then hemispherical, very obtuse, smooth, pel- 

 lucidly striate, obsoletely silky-atomate and opaque when dry. St. 

 4 cm. x 1 mm., white, hyaline, becoming pale, equal, flexuose, lax, very 

 smooth, apex pruinose. Gills greyish, then livid fuliginous, adnate, 

 plane, subtriangular, 4 mm. broad, distant, edge often rose-coloured. 

 Flesh yellowish, very thin. Spores very dead black, "elliptical, 

 12-16 x 7-8/Lt, smooth, opaque. Cystidia on edge ventricose-fusi- 

 form, 40-60 x 8-10/u," Rick. Rich pastures, and in ruts of roads in 

 woods. May Oct. Rare. 



1356. P. empyreumatica B. & Br. Cke. Illus. no. 641, t. 657, fig. A. 



efwrvpos, burnt. 



P. 4 cm., rufous, then becoming pale, hygrophanous, membrana- 

 ceous, expanded, atomate; margin crenate. St. 6 cm. x 3 mm., pallid, 

 silky furfuraceous. Gills rufous, then brown purple, adnate, with a 

 decurrent tooth, 4 mm. broad, thick, distant, connected by veins, edge 

 pallid. Flesh concolorous, thin. Spores black. Smell strong. Wooden 

 pavement. Oct. Rare. 



1357. P. atomate Fr. (= Panaeolus atomatus (Fr.) Quel.) 



aro/A09, an atom. 

 P. 1-3 cm., livid, or reddish, becoming pale tan or pale flesh colour 



