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bruised the stem changes colour, becoming purple. The spores are normally Psaliota. 

 fuscous-purple, but they change to fuscous-green with the colour of the 

 ground and (on a black ground) to ochraceous-whitish ; never rose-coloured. 

 Not rightly allied to any. 



On peat-beds in gardens. Rare. 



Spores sometimes colourless, M.J.D. Name echinus, a hedgehog. Prickly. 

 Roth. Catal. 2. /. g./. 5. Fr. Monogr. i. p. 408. Hym. Eur. p. 282. Berk. 

 Out. p. 167. C. Illust. PI. 395. S. Mycol. Scot. Supp. Scot. Nat. 1885, p. 

 25. A. oxyosmus Mont, in Ann. Sc. Nat. 1836. t. io./ 3. Brigant. t. 27. 

 f. 1-3. A. Hookeri Klotsch. 



Subgenus XXX. STROPHARIA (<rrp6$os, a sword-belt 

 ring to the ring). Fr. Monogr. i. p. 

 409. Hymenophore continuous with 

 the stem. Veil annular. Gills more or 

 lessadnate. Fr. Hym. Enr. p. 283. 



Stropharia corresponds with Ar- 

 viillaria and Pholiota. The species 

 grow on the ground, or are epiphytal. 

 None are edible. 



A. Viscipelles (viscum, bird-lime; pellh, 

 skin). Pellicle of the pileus even or scaly, 

 most frequently -viscous. 



* Muiidi ()/ut?/diis, clean), not growing on 

 dung. 



t * Merdarii (merda, dung), ring often in- 

 complete. 



XX XL Agaric us (Stropharia) 



B.Spmtrigeri(A.sfitntfiger). Pileus with- arvginoZ**. One-third natural 

 out a pellicle, but innato-fibrillose, not viscous. size. 



refer- Stropharia. 



A. VISCIPELLES. Pellicle of the pileus even or scaly, &c. 

 * Mundi, not growing on dung. 



693. A. versicolor With. Pileus 2.5-10 cent. (1-4 in.) broad, 

 becoming greenish-brown, fleshy, convexo-plane, scaly, the scales 

 of the disc crowded. Stem 5 cent. (2 in.) long, as thick as a swan- 

 quill, spongy-stuffed, bulbous, whitish-fuscous. Ring persistent. 

 Gills decurrent, pallid, then rufous-brown. 



Not recognised since the time of Withering. Name verto, to turn ; color, 

 colour. With.. Arr. 4. p. 166. Fr. Hym. Eur. p. 284. Syst. Myc. i. /. 286. 

 C. Hb' 



Berk. Out. p. 167. 



tbk. n. 394. 



694. A. seruginosus Curt. Pileus fleshy, but not compact, 

 campanulato-convex then flattened, somewhat umbonate (obtuse 



