208 Agaricus Pilosace Stropharia. 



a. fistulose, equal, glabrous, colour of p., ring median, erect ; sp. 

 45 x 3. 



subgibbosus, Fr. P. 2 3 cm. convexo-plane, umb. even, glabrous 

 but silky towards edge, yellowish ; g. remote from stem, white then 

 greyish-fuscous ; s. 2 3 cm. fistulose, slender, ring fugacious. 



PILOSACE, Fr. 



algeriensis, Fr. P. 6 10 cm. convex then exp. even, glabrous, 

 white then disc tinged brownish ; flesh very thick, white ; g. very 

 narrow, rosy then umber ; s. 3 5 cm. very stout, white, base 

 thickened, solid ; sp. subgl. 8 /*. 



[Bresadolae, Schulz. P. very thin and very fragile, irreg. 

 campan. then exp. and edge wavy, margin split, pale yellow-fuscous, 

 glabrous, even ; g. free, blackish-brown, edge white-mealy ; s. often 

 slightly wavy, apex abruptly contracted, white ; sp. 9 x 45. 



Many plants spring from a subterranean fleshy mass. 



[Phoenix, Fr. P. thin, campan. exp. even, glabrous, hygr. fuscous 

 then pale ; g. free, ventricose, pallid then umber ; s. stuffed, striate, 

 subbulbous, rooting, pallid. 



STROPHAKIA, Fr. 



A. VISCIPELLES. Pellicle of pileus even or scaly, 

 often viscid. 



* Mundi. Not growing on dung. 



[depilata, Pers. P. exp. even, glabrous, viscid, yellowish-livid 

 then tan ; g. adnato-decur. broad, white then blackish ; s. solid, with 

 white revolute squarrose white scales below the ample ring; sp. 

 1114x68. 



Percevali, B. and Br. P. 35 cm. rather viscid, umb. then exp. 

 ochre, scaly at first near edge; g. adnexed, broad distant ; s. 5 7 cm. 

 squamulose up to ring, dark inside ; sp. 12 14 x 6. 



S. squamosa differs in adnate, crowded g. 



versicolor, With. P. 3 7 cm. couvexo-plane, scaly, edge in- 

 curved ; g. decur. pallid then reddish-brown ; s. 5 cm. whitish then 

 brownish, ring persistent. 



A species about which little is known. 



aeruginosa, Curt. P. 4 7 cm. convex then exp. subumb. or 

 quite plane, at first with bluish-green mucus and sometimes with 

 white squamules, then yellowish ; g. adnate, purplish ; s. 5 6 cm. 

 viscid, squamulose below ring, tinged green, often quite glabrous ; 

 sp. 10 x 5. 



Very variable within certain limits. Often stout and deep 

 coloured in shady woods. Slender and soon dry in open pastures. 



