400 FUNGUS-FLORA. 



gills adnate, sinuate, crowded, 2 lines broad, whitish, then 

 purple-violet, at length blackish, edge whitish ; stem 1-1 1 

 in. long, 24 lines thick, attenuated downwards, base equal 

 or slightly bulbous, fibrillose, white, stuffed, then hollow ; 

 ring median on the stem, striate ; spores purple- brown, 

 elliptical, 10 x 5 p. 



Agaricus (Stropharia} coronillus, Bulliard, Champ., tab. 597 ; 

 Cke., Hdbk., p. 198 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 535. 



On the ground. Small but firm ; flesh of pileus 3-6 lines 

 thick in the centre, white. Smell something like that of 

 radishes. With the habit of Psalliota, but distinguished by 

 the gills not being free from the stem. 



Stropharia ventricosa. Massee. 



Pileus about 1 in. across, campanulate then almost plane, 

 broadly gibbous, even, smooth, slightly viscid in wet weather, 

 tawny-ochraceous, paler when dry; flesh thick in the 

 centre, becoming very thin at the margin, pale ochraceous ; 

 gills slightly adnexed, almost free, ventricose, 2J 3 lines 

 broad, rather crowded, thin, greyish-lilac then purplish- 

 brown, margin pale ; stem 2^-3 in. long, ventricose below 

 the middle, 4-5 lines diameter at the swollen part, ending 

 in a long, tapering, rooting base, pale yellow, minutely 

 squamulose downwards, hollow, brown within, ring large, 

 persistent, near the apex of the stem, white, pendulous, 

 margin striate; spores elliptical, purple- brown, 10 x 6 p. 



Agaricus (Stropharia') merdarius, Fries, var. major, Cke., 

 Hdbk., Suppl., p. 383 (not of Fries); Cke., Illustr., pi. 1188. 



On the ground. 



Growing in tufts of 3-6. Known from all other species 

 by the distinctly fusiform, rooting stem, and the large, 

 persistent, striate ring. Gills almost free. 



Stropharia obturata. Fr. 



Pileus ^-1 in. across, rather compact, convex then plane, 

 obtuse, almost dry, at length cracked into squamules, yellow ; 

 gills adnate, plane, whitish then purplish-umber ; stem 11 ^ 

 in. long, 3 lines thick, attenuated downwards, white, stuffed"; 

 ring tumid, white ; spores purple-brown. 



Agaricus (Stropharia} obturatus, Fries, Syst. Myc. Eur. i. 

 p. 283 ; Fries, Hym. Eur., p. 285. 



