210 Stropharia. 



squamosa, Fr. P. 3 6 cm. exp. subviscid, yellowish-tan with 

 evanescent concentric scales ; g. adnate, blackish, edge white ; s. 

 7 12 cm. pallid, rusty near base, squamulose up to distant ring; 

 sp. 12 x 6. 



var. thrausta (Ag. thratista, Kalchbr.). Slender, fragile, hygr. 

 not scaly ; sp. 1215 x 6. 



var. aurantiaca, Cke. P. orange or brick-red. 



[albonitens, Fr. P. thin, exp. gibbous, viscid, glabrous, hyaline- 

 white, shining white when dry ; g. adnate, crowded, pale fuscous ; 

 s. stuffed with pith, everywhere floccosely villose, pale straw when 

 dry ; sp. 6 9 x 4 5. 



Worthingtoni, Fr. P. 2 3 cm. cam pan. viscid, yellow; g. adnate, 

 broad, brown ; s. 4 7 cm. slender, flexuous, dark blue, ring in- 

 complete ; sp. 7 x 4. 



Differs from S. cdbocyanea in the yellow p. 



[palustris, Q. P. hemispher. unib. rather viscid, hygr. greyish- 

 tawny, disc brown ; g. adnate, very broad ; s. slender, white, covered 

 with transverse tawny scales, ring distant. 



* * MERDARIL Ring often incomplete. 



luteonitens, Fl. Dan. P. 2 3 cm. conico-campan. umb. viscid, 

 yellow, edge squamulose ; g. adnexed, ventricose ; s. 2 3 cm. fistulose, 

 even, pruinose above distant ring, whitish ; sp. 10 11 x 6. (14 x 6 7 

 Sacc.) 



Intermediate between S. squamosa and Psilocyle coprophila, 

 having scaly p. and ring of former, and stature of latter. 



merdaria, Fr. P. 1'5 2'5 cm. exp. obtuse, glabrous, moist, 

 hygr. dingy yellow-brown or pale bay ; g. aduate, broad ; s. 2 3 cm. 

 flocculose, dry, pallid, ring fugacious ; sp. 8 x 5. (12 16 x 6 8 Sacc.) 



| mammilata, Kalchbr. P. thin, exp. conico-papillate, even, viscid, 

 pale ochre ; g. rotundato-adnate, blackish brown ; s. glabrous, white 

 then yellowish, ring fugacious. 



stercoraria, Fr. P. 2 3 cm. hemispher. then discoid, rather 

 viscid, glabrous, yellow; g. adnate, broad, olive-black; s. 8 10cm. 

 stuffed with free pith, elongated, flocculose below the distant ring, 

 rather viscid, white tinged yellow ; sp. 1820 x 8 10. 



semiglobata, Batsch. P. 2 3 cm. persistently hemispher. even, 

 glutinous, yellow; g. adnate, broad, clouded black; s. 610 cm. 

 glabrous, glutinous, yellowish, ring imperfect, inferior ; sp. 12 x 6. 



Differs from P. stercoraria in persistently hemispher. p. and 

 glabrous s. 



[siccipes, Karst. P. hemispher. exp. obtuse, orbicular, naked, 

 even or edge slightly pellucidly striate, viscid, whitish clay-colour ; 

 g. adnato-subdecur. clay-colour then fuscous and clouded ; s. pallid, 

 dry, straight or wavy, flocculose, pruinose above the distant, dry 

 ring; sp. 12 15x7 9. 



Intermediate between /S. stercoraria and S. semiglobata. 



