408 FUNGUS-FLORA. 



On trunks. Caespitose ; pileus fragile. In Cooke's figure 

 the stem is in every example thickened at the base. 



Rather caespitose, stem hollow, about 3 in. long, 3 lines 

 thick, equal or sometimes slightly ventricose ; sometimes 

 floccoso-squamose, at others fibrillose, white, apex naked (not 

 mealy) ; ring an inch and more from the pileus, thin, 

 white, fugacious. Pileus rather fleshy, thin, fragile, ovate 

 then expanded, 34 in. broad, even, glabrous, soft to the 

 touch, brownish then clay- colour. Flesh thin, white, almost 

 absent from the margin. Gills adnate, linear, 1-2 lines 

 broad, crowded, joined behind, brownish, rather deliquescent, 

 edge same coloured, entire. Allied to S. appendiculata. 

 (Fries.) 



Stropharia hypsipoda. Fr. 



Pileus 1-2 in. across, flesh thin, convex then almost plane, 

 glabrous, hygrophanous, brownish-yellow and with the 

 margin slightly striate when moist, pale and with the margin 

 even when dry ; gills adnate then seceding, rather distant, 

 pale then dark brown ; stem 3-5 in. high, 2-4 lines thick, 

 equal or slightly thickened at the base, glabrous, whitish, 

 hollow ; ring median, persistent ; spores elliptical, brown, 

 12-14 X 6-7 p.. 



Agaricus (Stropharia) liypsipus, Fries, Epic., p. 218; Cke., 

 Hdbk., p. 201 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 619. 



In damp places amongst grass, moss, &c. Solitary. 

 Fragile. 



Stem fistulose, fragile, 34 in. long, 23 lines thick, equal, 

 glabrous, white; ring medium, distant from the pileus, 

 membranaceous, white. Pileus rather fleshy, campanulate 

 then convexo-plane, obtuse, 2 in. and more broad, even, 

 glabrous, hygrophanous, livid-brownish when moist, margin 

 slightly striate ; altogether even (not corrugated), clay- 

 colour. Gills adnate, at length separating from the stem, 

 rather distant, white then brown. (Fries.) 



PILOSACE. Fries, (figs. 6, 7, p. 351). 



Sporophore differentiated from the stem ; gills free from 

 the stem ; general and partial veil both absent, hence there 

 is no ring on the central stem ; spores purple-brown. 



