402 FUNGUS-FLOKA. 



The stem is sometimes covered below the ring with reflexed 

 fibrillose squamules, at other times strigosely tomentose. 



Stem tubular, at first stuffed, soon hollow, slender, 3-5 in. 

 long, 2 lines thick, equal, tough, pale above ferruginous 

 downwards, powdered above the distant, entire, membrana- 

 ceous ring, below the ring sometimes covered with squarrose 

 squamules, at others tomentose and densely strigose ; pileus 

 fleshy, thin, hemispherical then expanded, often obtuse or 

 with an obsoletely gibbous umbo, 1-3 in. broad, with a viscid 

 pellicle when moist, not viscid when dry, ochraceous, covered 

 with superficial, concentrically arranged, pilose squamules. 

 Gills adnate, broad, crowded, plane, grey then blackish, edge 

 white. (Fries.) 



Var. thraustus, Fr. Differing from the typical form in 

 the pileus, soon becoming glabrous. Slenderer than the type, 

 pileus about 1 in. across, stem 4-5 in. high ; spores elliptical, 

 12 x 6 ^. 



Agaricus (Stropharia) thraustus, Kalchb., Icon. Fung. Hung., 

 t. 15, f. 4. 



Agaricus (Stropharia) squamosus, Fr., var. thraustus, Fries, 

 Hym. Eur., p. 286 ; Cke., Hdbk., p. 199 ; Cke., lllustr., pi. 554. 



Amongst grass. 



Var. aurantiaca, Cooke. Agreeing in size with the 

 typical form, but having the pileus orange or brick-red; 

 spores elliptical, 12 x 6 p.. 



Agaricus (Stropharia) squamosus, Fries, var. aurantiacm, 

 Cke., Hdbk., p. 199 ; Cke., lllustr., pi. 555. 



Amongst grass. 



** Merdarii. 



Stropharia luteo-nitens. Flor. Dan. 



Pileus | 1 in. across, flesh thin, conico-campanulate, um- 

 bonate, viscid, yellow, even, margin squamulose; gills 

 adnexed, ventricose, 1-2 lines broad, greyish-black; stem 

 l_l in. high, 1 line or more thick, even, pruinose above the 

 distant imperfect ring, whitish, hollow; spores elliptical, 

 10-11 X 6/Lu 



On dung in pastures. 



Small, hardly squamose, stem short, fibrilloso-striate under 

 a lens. (Fries.) 



